The POW Ensemble is preparing for a visit to Cape Town and Stellenbosch between 9-16 March. We will perform at the 2nd Unyazi Festival for Electronic Music and we will do some research work for future projects at the Center for Popular Memory for a future project, The line up will be:
Han Buhrs - voice, electronics
Luc Houtkamp - saxophone, computer
Guy Harries - voice, computer
DNA - turntables
Micha de Kanter - sound engineeer

Our research will be focused at District Six, a multi cultural neighborhood that was dismantled just before Apartheid disappeared.

Looking for queer life in the area I found some pages on Gayle, the SA version of the gay language Polari.
See: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/2159/gayle.htm
and: http://www.q.co.za/news/1999/9908/990810-gayle.html

"After a having an erika with this hilda Queen of Scotch, I don't mind to trade with Betty Bangles or a Koffie Moffie"