A blind sax player from Hanover Park said that law enforcement had booted him from his busking spots in Camps Bay, Cape {town} Etc reports.
For the past 10 years, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Herman (54) has been performing music along Camps Bay Main Road, which he relies on to help make ends meet.
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Earlier this year, in February, Herman appealed for help to repair his 8-year-old saxophone, which was ‘being held together by elastic bands’, as reported by the Daily Voice.
With the help of the Western Cape Premier’s office, he was assisted with a new saxophone a few days later.
According to Herman, he wakes up early from Wednesdays to Sundays to catch a taxi from Hanover Park to the CBD, where he would ‘ask people to help him down a flight of stairs’ to catch a taxi to Camps Bay.
Herman would do all this while carrying his camping chair, collection box and sax case.
For the majority of days that he performs, he tries to make enough money to afford his taxi fare home and buy a meal.
‘For the past two weeks, I was being stopped from busking by Law Enforcement officers in the Camps Bay area. I was told by the officers that there are complaints from surrounding restaurants saying I am making a noise with my saxophone […] I have never in all the ten years of busking here had a problem with any of the business owners,’ said Herman.
‘When the officers told me to leave the spot outside the Kauai, I got up and left and went to continue busking a few meters away at the Camps Bay Taxi Rank, but that was also a problem […] Sometimes there are youth also busking, dancing and playing drums, but they aren’t asked to move. I don’t have a busking permit because that was never a requirement for me there,’ Herman added.
Wayne Dyason, City of Cape Town law enforcement spokesperson has stated that they are ‘looking into the matter’.
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