By Lee-Yandra Paulsen The Voice of the Cape (VOC) Salt River office is buzzing with excitement as the team works tirelessly to ensure the VOC summer festival keeps listeners entertained during the festive season. The annual Summer Festival, set to take place at Athlone Stadium during the first weekend of December is guaranteed to be bigger than ever, with food stalls, exhibitions, and entertainment all lined up to create an […]
By Aneeqa du Plessis “The time has come!” The excitement is mounting as the biggest cultural event on the social calendar beckons, this year the VOC Summer Festival 2023 will be bigger and better than ever before. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show earlier this week, Sales and Marketing Representative Mugamad Zain Majiet announced that the festival is set to take place from the 1st December until the 3rd December 2023. […]
VOC's festival convening team will meet on Monday evening to discuss concerns raised by stallholders after the cancellation of the festival yesterday. In an unprecedented move, organisers called off the festival at Vyigeskraal stadium due to the risks posed by gale force winds, which had damaged marquees and parts of the stadium stand. The festival committee said they had no other choice but to shut down the event, after the […]
UPDATE: Organisers made a tough decision to officially cancel the VOC Summer Festival 2017, due to the gale force winds that have wrecked havoc in the Mother City. The festival, which was meant to take place at Vygieskraal stadium in Athlone this weekend, was hampered by strong, gusty winds since Saturday morning. The festival convening team said they were advised by the Venue Operations Centre that the festival could not […]
As the countdown to the highly-anticipated VOC Summer Festival 2017 officially begins, the festival organisers have released key details around the upcoming event. The community festival, organised by the Voice of the Cape, attracts thousands of people from the Mother City for a weekend of events at the Vygieskraal stadium in Athlone from the 7th to the 10th December 2017. This year’s theme ‘Carnival’ aims to bring back the nostalgia […]
“The time has come”. When the sounds of this much-loved song ring out on air, VOC listeners know only one thing – the 2017 VOC Summer Festival. It is official – festival goers can now mark off the dates between the 7th to the10th December as the days to attend the annual summer festival at the Vygieskraal stadium in Athlone. The VOC Summer Festival was the first of its kind […]
By Ra-ees Moerat Despite overwhelming socio-economic difficulties on the Cape Flats, sports seems to be the one passion that drives many youth, particularly a group of youngsters from Manenberg. Completely unprepared and with only socks and flip-flops, Team Phoenix managed to dominate VOC’s Mini Olympics at the annual VOC Summer Festival. The fun sports tournament was one of the main attractions and a new event at the festival. Participants included […]
VOC's biggest community event, the VOC Summer Festival 2016, was a resounding success with thousands of festival-goers attending the event over the three days. Organisers estimate that 20 000 people supported the event this past weekend, mostly families who seek an environment where there is clean fun. The festival brought together a myriad of local food traders, artisans, clothing designers, jewellery and toy vendors as well as local businesses - giving shoppers a wide range […]
VOC’s festival convening team and staff might be tired, groggy and bleary-eyed on Monday, but they can smile knowing that another successful festival was pulled off. With the start of the December festive season, the VOC Summer Festival 2016 ushered in summer (and some wind) with a fantastic line-up of events at Vygieskraal stadium over the past weekend. Organisers estimate that about 20 000 people attended the event from Friday […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
