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I put a spell on you.

Quite remarkable.

Because you're mine.

It's insane.

It's really insane.

I still have no idea how he did that.

Oh, my God.

I put a spell on you.

I'm just shocked, aren't I?

Because...

There is something magical about travelling.

The sense of heading into the unknown.

Somehow, it makes you feel alive.

I was on a tour of South Africa and had landed in Johannesburg.

the lightning capital of the world, and once upon a time considered to be the

most dangerous city on the planet.

Twenty years since the end of apartheid, things are slowly changing and the

young people of this city are hoping to redefine its future.

Word of my visit to Johannesburg had spread quickly, and I was receiving so

messages from the local university that I decided to pay them a visit.

When I arrived, the reception was overwhelming, as hundreds of students

gathered to meet me.

How you doing, you all right?

How are you?

I'm all right, how are you?

Pretty good, you know, I like it here.

So you're going to stay?

For a couple of weeks, yeah.

If you go back home, send me into a ring and let's go.

Let's leave Africa.

It's going to be cold in England, though. It's fine.

You're sick of it, aren't you?

I'm going to ask you a question.

Are any of you guys scared?

Do you have any phobias? In fact, if you've got a phobia now, just think of

Don't say it out loud.

Just get it in your mind, yeah?

Look at me.

Do you have a phobia?

Don't say out loud what it is, but just think of it right now, yeah?

Can I use this pen and pad? Yeah, you can.

Look at me.

Name out loud.

Insect.

Put your hands together.

No. Get it over the table, yeah. Put it together.

Yeah.

Put it together.

A little bit closer, yeah.

I thought it was phobia.

And he looked at me in a creepy way.

But then he looked at me and he wrote it down.

And he asked us to put out our hands and, yeah, that came out.

And then he did that, you know.

Later that day, I met up with a couple of students in one of the classrooms

overlooked the courtyard.

How you doing, you all right?

What's your name, bro? Clinton. Clinton and?

Mandy. Mandy, I'm Dynamo.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

I want you to take any card out.

Don't let me see it. Show it to Clinton and show it to the cameras.

Have you done that?

Put it back there.

Can you see the angel on the back of the card? There's two angels there and

there, yeah? Yeah.

Did you know that if you blow in just the right spot, it can cause the angel's

wings to flap?

Look.

You saw that, right? Yeah.

Now, Mandy, you pick the card, and it's somewhere in the middle, yeah?

Yeah.

Here, on the count of three, I want you both to blow.

towards the dead.

So on three. One, two, three.

The

wings

of the angel are flapping.

He blew it.

He blew it. That's crazy.

Then he asked us to blow. It shifted on its own and the number was repeated.

Yeah, the whole deck just moved and there was the court.

That's crazy.

The

next day,

I headed to a Johannesburg local market.

Exploring Aladdin's den filled with weird and wonderful goods from across

continent.

You guys come here from South Africa?

These are cool, aren't they?

Yeah, very nice. If you was going to get something from here, what would you

get? What would I get?

I would get frogs.

Like little frogs, yeah? Yeah, little frogs.

Let's have a look.

Hello.

Pretty. Can I have a look?

Mm -hmm. Very nice.

Thank you.

She's all right, folks.

Folks are cute.

Watch this. Let me...

As well as frogs, the market stalls sell all

kinds of wooden animals, so I wanted to try and take things a step further.

How you doing, you alright?

I'm cool man, what's your name?

Robia. Robia and?

Renee. Renee, I'm Dynamo.

Can I have a look at your hat?

Yeah.

Oh, your hair looks nice.

Looks good.

So I've got the hat and I'm going to take one of these.

He took one of these takes snake from the market, put it in a hat, turned it

upside down, and a real one came out.

It was so crazy.

I was on a journey across South Africa and had started my trip in Johannesburg.

The iconic telecommunications tower that dominates the Joburg skyline sits in

the notorious neighbourhood of Hillbrow, which has a reputation as one of the

most dangerous places in the city.

Once an affluent neighbourhood, by the mid -90s it had become a no -go area for

outsiders, lighted by extreme poverty and violent crime.

Despite being warned not to film here, I'd heard that things were slowly

changing for Hillbrow and wanted to see the neighbourhood for myself.

I've got a pen here.

So just point to one of these cards.

Take it out. Write your name nice and big, yeah?

Hold this hand up.

Hold on to it with your finger and thumb.

Hold it tight.

Be the angel, right?

You can't even erase it unless you see it.

But he managed to move it from here to here.

Thank you.

Walking around Hillbrow, I realise that despite its fearsome reputation, it is

also home to many ordinary people.

I guess it's unfair to define a community by where they happen to live,

maybe it's these preconceptions that are part of the problem.

I want you to write your name nice and big on there.

And

then

just show it to him.

And now roll it up into a ball.

You signed your name on there, right?

You scrunched it up into a ball.

I want you just to come this way with me. Come with me.

Hold it out above the bin.

I want you to keep looking at me.

I'm going to stand over there.

Keep looking at me. When I say one, two, three, on three you drop it into the

bin. But keep looking at me over there, yeah?

Right?

On three.

One, two, three.

This is my handwriting.

It's coming from there, but I put it here.

I don't have an idea.

Then it came from that side. I was holding it like this.

Then it came up from that. Now it's coming from that side.

You see the same handwriting.

That's why they call him the Magistrate.

Where is this guy?

As I left Hillbrow, I couldn't stop thinking about how isolated this

is. I guess change takes a long while, but in the meantime, there is still a

huge divide between both the rich and poor communities.

The next afternoon I headed out to Soweto in the southwest of Johannesburg.

The Orlando Cooling Towers are a popular destination for visitors to Soweto and

are the home of South Africa's highest bungee jump and underground paintballing

arena.

Alright, good evening everyone.

Welcome to Orlando Towers.

Mission objective, retrieve the flag, make it back to home base without

shot. Now, if it happens that you get shot on your way there, all you've got

do is surrender.

Go back.

Just grab some face masks and let's get ready to go in.

Who got it the worst? Yeah, my fingers.

Bleeding, yeah.

Oh, man.

I think there should be layers to that.

You went out there with no T -shirt?

Yeah. You don't want to ruin the T -shirt.

Right, I'm going to put this down here.

I should have done what you did, though. I should have just not worn my T

-shirt. Yeah.

A little bit.

Watch this.

Watch.

I can't believe it's film. I think it's impossible.

Forget it. It is a real film. You won't fault it now. Of course it is.

It's a prank.

It's a legit prank.

Just don't understand it.

Yo.

I've got the shakes right now.

Cape Town, the oldest city in South Africa, falls where the great Atlantic

meets the mountains of the Western Cape.

This stunning coastal city feels worlds away from the concrete tower blocks of

Johannesburg.

From the vertical cliffs of Table Mountain to the shark -infested waters

False Face, this is a place of awe -inspiring beauty.

I was on my way for an interview with the legendary Rolling Stone magazine,

which had recently opened up its offices in Cape Town.

As a music fan, it was a massive honour to be interviewed for such an iconic

publication.

I want to know, how did you perform, like, 12 years ago? What kind of gigs

you get?

Well, I grew up, there wasn't really theatres, not many kind of opportunities

really put myself on that sort of stage, unless you were a seasoned

professional. So I had to find my own environment to work in.

I used to perform at a lot of boxing matches, so, you know, the people who

to the boxing, they'd spend a lot of money, plus they'd be, like, tipping me,

like, £50 notes.

I remember I was at my grandma's and I had this Nescafe tin, but I'd be

collecting 50s and I'd be sticking it in this tin and hiding it under my bed.

Do you think you can do some magic for it on that net?

I can do, yeah, yeah.

It's literally a year since you guys started up Rolling Stone out here in

Africa. That's absolutely right.

How many copies of the magazine have you put out?

We've done 12. We're just going to print tomorrow with number 13.

Awesome. I just want you to pick up any one of the magazines and flick to a page

and find the word or thread on that page and just memorise it. I'm standing over

here so I can't see what you're doing. Cool.

We closed the page up and everything, so I can't have any clues to what it might

be.

All right.

So there's obviously five different copies there for you to choose from.

Look at me.

I'm getting the impression that you've kind of got two words in your mind. No.

Go for the second word, yeah?

It's a small word.

It's the word bay.

No way!

Yeah, it is.

No way!

What was the other word?

Like a... Because bay, it's like a name, like...

Jeffries.

Jeffries Bear.

Jeffries Bear.

Yeah, sure, these guys.

This is getting creepy and creepy. Thunder in Jeffries Bay.

Oh, no.

It's too creepy.

It's the same town where I used to go for vacation to my sister when I was a

teenager.

He got the word from nothing, basically.

Read my mind and got the word.

Insane. Really insane.

Freaks me out.

I mean, the thing about Rolling Stone is that it's based on long -form

reporting. So a lot of the articles run probably 4 ,000 or 5 ,000 words. So

you're probably talking 30 ,000. I mean, you spend your entire day with the

words. 30 ,000 words per issue? Easily.

That's bizarre.

That's absolutely bizarre. How do you explain that?

Later that afternoon, I headed over to the Cranktown Bar in central Cape Town,

where a lot of the young South Africans hang out.

Thank you.

How's everyone doing? You alright?

What's up?

Hey man.

Hello.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you all. Hey man, it's cool.

Have you got any coins on you?

I do.

It's got no notes.

No, no, it's got a couple of coins, yeah.

Take two rounds, put the rest away, and

then write your initials on whichever side you want.

Yeah, just put it down and then I'll tell you what I'll get you to sign this

the other side

Everyone

can see that right?

You signed the coin

Do me a favour Craig.

You see those bottles over there?

Yeah. Just point to one, pick one.

I'm going to take it from the left. Take it from the left, yeah? Yeah. Here,

watch. No way. No way.

No way.

There is another side to Cape Town.

Far away from the picturesque views of Table Mountain and the spacious offices

of Rolling Stone magazine lie South Africa's largest townships. Kailicha.

Over a million people live along its network of sandy walkways, baked by the

searing African sun.

The children of Kailitsha flood the streets during the day, many of them

orphaned and living on daily handouts.

For a lucky few, a pen and paper are the basic essentials needed for

homeschooling.

I just want you to draw something for me, anything you want.

What is that?

It's the sun. Alright.

Hold it like this.

Watch.

I have just thrown a sand right through in the paper.

But when I lift up the paper, it just blew the wind right in the sand. And my

son appeared.

But I don't know how it happened.

As darkness fell, it was time to leave Kailitsha.

This had been an amazing experience and the residents had welcomed me like an

old friend.

So before I left, I stopped by a family who were cooking dinner on the roadside

to leave them with a parting gift.

How are you doing?

Good.

Oh, this is nice and warm.

Are you making dinner?

What's your name?

Kutala. Kutala? I'm Dynamo.

I want to make you something special with this.

Do you know what this is?

It looks like a key.

Like a key thing, yeah, yeah. So you hold that.

I'll make something special with this. And also, I'm going to use...

I'm going to use this, yeah?

Watch.

See that?

Yeah?

So that's... So we've got this and this. Can you see that?

Now watch.

Yeah?

Thank you for watching.

A merchant man came

and then he took the coal from the fire and then he just made it like a pail and

then he just made boom and it dwelled like this.

So this is so special to me.

Later that evening, I headed over to Long Street in the Cape Town city bulb,

where hordes of people pack up at local bars and restaurants.

Does anybody here have any tattoos?

I've got one. It's gone right next to his grandpa.

What have you got? I've got a few.

You've got a few?

The biggest one.

Oh, wow.

That's awesome.

Very silly.

Right here.

Crazy.

You have got a few. You've got quite a lot.

Oh, yeah.

Actually, will you do me a favour?

Would you mind taking your jacket off?

Can I try something with this?

You might not be able to see. It might feel a little bit weird.

You can see the tattoo, right?

See this?

Watch.

Like, yours is removed.

Like, removed.

Gone.

I've got the shapes right now.

Sorry.

It's back, right?

See, it's back.

It's coming back, right?

That's one of my sisters that just disappeared.

It's my picture's initials. I've got two little pictures.

One of them is Donny, and Donny's no longer there.

That is very freaky.

My journey had almost come to an end, and I felt like I had only scratched the

surface of this incredible, complex country.

From the students of the Varsity University to the dust -ridden streets

Kailitsha, this is clearly a country of great extremes.

In some ways, South Africa is still living in the shadow of its past and

has huge issues of poverty and racial inequality.

But there is a new generation paving the way for a brighter, more tolerant

future. As the great Nelson Mandela once said, it always seems impossible until

it's done.

It's really exciting.

It's going to come back, right?

That is very freaky.

As I sat there overlooking Cape Town, I couldn't help but think how a country

with so much abundance still struggles to feed much of its population.

I'm not a politician, and maybe things aren't that simple, but clearly this

isn't the way it's meant to be.

Before I left South Africa, I wanted to visit Kailicha one last time.

Thank you.

You are?

Victoria? Nice to meet you, Victoria.

How are you doing over here?

What's your name?

Hello, Tamara.

Nice to meet you.

Watch this.

Watch. Yeah?

Watch. Watch, watch, watch.

See this?

What's this guys?

He was only holding the baguette, and the fish, they came out. You see, there

are many fish here in front of myself now. I never see.

And I think I shall never see like this. From my experience, I never see that. I

only see maybe the fishermen fishing there at the beach, but trying to find

does this fish have come out from the baguette. From one baguette, man, only

red baguette. So for myself, I even respect the red baguette. I will try

my house.

I've been truly humbled by my visit to South Africa.

I couldn't think of a better way to end it than at a barbecue with my new

friends.

So it's forbidden for my arm to hold you.

Let's cross lives with them now, shall we? Dynamo Lisa, are you there? Where

we going?

Oh, you can trust me, I'm from Gosford.

Spread your wings. Oh no, I'm so nervous about it.

I put a spell on you.

Because you're mine.

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