Magmoet is from Heideveld on the Cape Flats. During apartheid, people of colour were forcibly removed from Cape Town's urban centre and onto the Cape Flats. The best beaches were whites-only; others were segregated. Apartheid only ended in the early 1990s and Cape Town remains largely, albeit informally, divided by race, with people of colour living in underserved and often unsafe areas. Parts of the Cape Flats experience extreme gang-related violence; Magmoet himself has been shot twice. But he's quick to note that "there's also a lot of good happening that doesn't really get seen".
