A South African superhero who prefers fighting inequality rather than villains is going down a storm.
Captain South Africa, a star of Comic-Con Cape Town, is a far cry from her US counterpart. Unlike Captain America, the superheroine would tackle the country's housing crisis rather than villains. The black injustice warrior, who sports a bandana in the colours of the South African flag, is the brainchild of Bill Masuku.
The black injustice warrior, who sports a bandana in the colours of the South African flag, is the brainchild of Bill Masuku, a comic book artist who divides his time between his native Zimbabwe and South Africa."She doesn't punch criminals. She's fighting a lot of systems. Like, how do you fight poverty? Because you can't punch poverty."
"And by the women I was inspired by, I had to write their stories in the way I knew how, which was comics." She then migrated to a second outfit,"white with stripes, which represent her Xhosa heritage. People stop and are like, 'Oh, this is a Xhosa woman. I'm a Xhosa woman. I'm going to buy this. I want to see what this is about'."
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