South Africa Youth Orchestra

Aug 14, 2014, 03:28 PM

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Miagi - which means Music Is A Great Investment - is a South African Youth Orchestra with a mission to foster togetherness through music. The musicians are all young - in their teens and early 20s - but they're from poor townships and rich suburbs across Gauteng Province. They've just come back from a European tour where they performed music composed to celebrate 20 years of democracy. The BBC's Sophie Ribstein went to meet them in Johannesburg.