ELKE nou en dan a new minstrel troupe comes along with big drama and fanfare.
Sadly, many of them fall by the wayside soon afterwards.
Klopse is not a game for sissies. Jy moet hare op jou tanne het vir die game.
Vra maar vir die mense wat hulle vingers lelik verbrand het en daarna langs hulle skoene geloop het!
But every so often, a classy, organised Klopse troupe with enough knowledge and experience to play the game pops up. And Playaz is such a troupe.
The Playaz Inc. Minstrel troupe was started by co- owners Bred Scholtz and Achmat Williams and the added executive committee of Rameez Cassiem, Moegsien “Mo” Cassiem and Raeed Galant in Lentegeur, Mitchells Plain in 2018.
Bred says: “At the time, we felt that we…