The CPUT student was swept from rocks while scrambling down rocks towards the beach.
The purpose of the event was to promote social cohesion, good citizenship and empowerment through arts.
He was told by law enforcement officers to stop his work as he did not have a busking permit because he was soliciting money from beachgoers.
Wandie Mesetywa, 28, says she wants to promote doek-wearing among women.
She runs three centres in Khayelitsha and over the past 13 years has grown her staff from three to 27 people.