With rap and poetry, Cape Town tries to bridge racial divides

Rapper and poet Jitsvinger walks across a pedestrian overpass in the Woodstock area of Cape Town, South Africa, September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A city surrounded by ocean and divided in two by the naked rock of Table Mountain, Cape Town's incredible natural beauty belies a past of hundreds of years of slavery and racial oppression.

Now a generation of artists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers is trying to overcome this legacy, and in South Africa, a country with 11 official languages, it is not just significant what they say, but how they say it.