South Africa recently celebrated 30 years since its first racially integrated

elections marking the official end of apartheid and making Nelson Mandela

the nation's first black president.

Here in the US, a South African musical group

continues to spread Mandela's message of racial reconciliation

and healing, while also reminding us that the fight for equality in both nations is far from over.

Special correspondent Megan Thompson reports for our arts and culture series, Canvas. Dance lines, whistles, electric guitars, and the full Minnesota Orchestra.

The house was packed with school children at this recent performance in Minneapolis

by the South African Group 2911 International Exchange.

The country of South Africa was ruled and governed by a system of racial

discrimination and segregation known as apartheid.

Today's themes also included inequality, resistance, and reckoning with history.

We stand for truth, we stand for transparency, we stand for openness to speak about the difficult topics like race.

We are here initiating forgiveness and reconciliation,

not to just look at each other in color, but look at each other as the human race.

2911, whose name comes from a Bible verse, has been working with the Minnesota Orchestra

since it toured South Africa in 2018.

Good morning everybody.

Musician and 29-11 co-founder Brendan Adams grew up in a poor Cape Town neighborhood during apartheid, not allowed to even

enter a music hall.

As a child, I've seen a lot which any child should

see.

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