Minstrel-lovers can expect a caravansary of colour, sequins, song, drumbeats and dance as the Kaapse Klopse bursts onto Cape Town’s streets on Friday. The Tweede Nuwe Jaar carnival will start from Hanover Street in District Six and head towards the City Hall, where they will march in a horse-shoe shape onto the Grand Parade and back onto Darling Street. They continue up Darling Street into Adderley Street, up Wale Street […]
Organisers of the brand new Cape Town Street Parade have promised a world class event on 2 January 2018 as thousands of revelers usher in the new year in the tradition Cape Town way. Previously known as the Tweede Nuwe Jaar Minstrel Parade, The Cape Town Street Parade aims to be an inclusive carnival for all the people who participate in it and who support it – its stakeholders, communities […]
The Cape minstrel fraternity has been given a financial boost by the City of Cape Town through R6,1 million in funding to the minstrel events and Malay choirs this year. On Monday, the City said it would support six associations to host events, including Tweede Nuwe Jaar, other minstrel tournaments, and the Malay choir competitions. The City will transfer R4,1 million in cash to the associations and provide R2 million […]
Despite a last-minute decision to pull out of the Tweede Nuwe Jaar road march in the CBD, the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) believes the turnout for its own minstrel competition at Athlone Stadium proved the event was a success. On Monday, the CTMCA hosted a separate carnival at the stadium, after it withdrew from the traditional road march due to a dispute with the City of Cape Town. […]
Security requirements were not met and this is what resulted in the Athlone Stadium being kept locked for four hours on Monday, the City of Cape Town has said. Hundreds of minstrels and spectators were left waiting outside of the stadium for the event, which was meant to have started in the morning. The breakaway Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) scheduled their own minstrel competition for 11:00 on Monday […]
The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) on Sunday accused the city of using money and "old apartheid tactics" to divide minstrels for their own gain. But the city has denied this, saying the CTMCA did not request funding from the special events committee, nor did it apply for a permit to participate in Monday's major minstrel parade through the Cape Town city centre. The CTMCA, representing roughly 60% of […]
Following a legal wrangle between the City of Cape Town and minstrel groups, the city has announced that it has approved event permits for the annual road march event to be held on 30 December 2016 and the Tweede Nuwe Jaar event on 2 January 2017. The court on Friday dismissed an urgent application by the former organisers, the Cape Town Minstrel Association, to be awarded the tender to host […]
UPDATED: An urgent application by the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association to compel the City of Cape Town to approve a street parade this weekend has been set aside by the Cape High Court. For the first time in 19 years, the Voorsmaakie parade will not take place. The event is seen as buildup to the Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival on 2 January. The Minstrel’s Association took the City to court to […]
Earlier this week, during a training session organized by the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) in Bo- Kaap’s Wale Street, one individual was killed in what was alleged to have been gang related. While the police investigation gets underway, organizers of the annual event have distanced themselves from reports that the victims is a member of a minstrel troop, instead confirming that he was in fact a spectator and […]
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