cltrSHIFT Stephen Embleton

We visited Afro house artist, Holly Wasserfall (aka Holly Rey), and spoke about juggling her studies and career, the music emerging from the bedroom studios of Umlazi, and her latest single, “Deeper”, rising in the charts. 



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We drove down the South Coast and spoke with South Africa’s most decorated woman surfer, Heather Clark.



As South Africa’s most decorated women surfer, Heather has reached many proud milestones in her career, one of which, the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, has yet to be achieved by a South African man.



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We got to talk with 12 year old journalist Janna Jihad, who has faced up to armed soldiers on the West Bank, about her reporting on the occupation of her town by Israeli forces.



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We visited surfer Gary van Wieringen in his shaping room to talk growing up surfing on the south coast and how repairing surfboards got him into the precision art of shaping. 



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We spoke with Isipingo local, Terence Simon, about surfing in the 70s and 80s and trying to catch waves during apartheid.



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We sat down with musician David Birch, who took us through his early punk rock days in the UK and touring; to landing on Durban soil in '91, staying permanently...and making a success of it. From The Vibrators to Squeal, we covered it all.



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