Ziyabila eGugs Stadium Tuesday

SPORT 15
CITY VISION
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Race and Music: Fun filled day of running and music: Tickets from R110 to R150
Ziyabila eGugs Stadium Tuesday
TIYESE JERANJI
Great entertainment sparks will be flying at
the Gugulethu Stadium in NY49 come 16 December.
Courtesy of Ziyawamo Media Group, the
fun filled day will include the annual race
and for the second year running, be the venue for a music festival after the event.
All the plebs who know how to have a good
time are invited to come and enjoy themselves.
The group says this will be the best summer party ever.
In the morning, people will begin the day
with a running competition, a 10km race
and 4,2km fun run which will finish at 10am,
after which a prize-giving ceremony will be
held.
Later in the day people can expect to be
entertained by the likes of Khuli Chana,
Dream Team, DJ Sox, Mpumi, Driemamskap and Thebe, Zintle M, Ordinary People,
DJ Aux and DJ O, to name but a few.
Zintle Mgwele, better known as Zintle M,
said everyone is invited to wind up the year.
“It’s been a long year, now it’s time to let
loose. We have entertainment stored up for
everyone. The young and the old will all
have something to dance to. It will be fun.
“We have worked hard all year so let’s just
reward ourselves by coming together to enjoy the festival,” she said.
The revellers will not go hungry as there
will be food stalls, a beer garden and drink
stalls.
Mzura Kuse, said the race and music festival is the best summer party.
“This is the biggest party to round up the
year in our township. Everyone should be
there because this is a family event,” said
Kuse.
Muso Thebe will be rocking Cape Town on
Tuesday December 16.
Ziyawamo Media Group is promising more great music shows as the year draws to an end very
soon. Pic Supplied
Khuli Chana, Mpumi and DJ Soxx are all geared to usher you into the festive mode with explosive entertainment at NY 49 Stadium on Tuesday
noon.
Local choir wins hearts and minds in Durban contest
MANDLA MAHASHE
A choir comprised mostly of high school pupils has done Gugulethu and surrounds
proud as they were crowd champions at a national competition.
Joyful Harmonies, representing the Western Cape province, outsang 10 other rivals
to be crowned the best choir in the standard
category of the Old Mutual National Choir
Festival.
The competition was held last weekend at
the Durban’s International Convention Centre.
They faced stiff competition from the 10
other groups but their rendition of Swati
song Bayethe Mandela saw them win over
the judges on Saturday.
On Sunday they performed a German
piece titled Der Stern for which they came
second but were voted overall winners of the
category.
According to senior member Simo Sithandathu the win was testament to the amazing
choral talent in our townships.
“Most of the members of this choir are
high school pupils with raw talent that have
proven they have what it takes to compete
at the highest level.
We are a relatively new choir and it’s really fantastic to see ourselves performing at
this level,” said Sithandathu.
The group pocketed R 74 000 prize money
which would be dearly welcome by the fi-
nancially stricken choristers.
The win was a far cry for a choir that only
made it to fourth position out of 10 choirs
in the same category in their first attempt
in 2012..
Monde Mdingi, founder of the choir in
2009, said they had experienced such profound confidence before the competition
that the announcement of their victory was
a foregone conclusion.
“We were so confident the results just confirmed what we already knew,” he boasted.
Even before the competition, the choir had
won praises way above their immediate
competitors, but not wanting to rest on their
laurels, still they gave it their all.
. Sithandathu said that they believed that
the win would motivate more youngsters to
join the group.
That is a good thing, he says, but it represents another challenge for them.
“As many of our members are young and
unemployed we struggle to raise funds for
travel expenses.
Even as we toured to Durban it transpired
that our sponsored bus was too small to carry us all for the trip,” he said..
He said one of the biggest challenges they
face was lack of funds and support from local
businesses.
He said that they hope that the win will
spur other sponsors to come on board.
Monde Mdingi can be reached at
0734960464 or 0724120294.
HEAVENLY VOICES: Some members of Gugulethu choir Joyful harmonies that won big at the Old
Mutal Choir Festival over the weekend in Durban.
DJ Euphonik to spin the discs in Gugs’
MBO TAMATI MASEKO
Proudly Kasi Initiatives in partnership with
Smouse Blazer present you the first of its
kind, a two day music festival at the Gugulethu Sports Complex, to be held this weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday 13 and
14 December, respectively, from 12pm till
SPIN DA DISK: DJ Euphonik is set to perform
at the Gugulethu Festival this weekend.
late in the evening.
The festival is set to showcase arts and lifestyle, beer and whiskey tasting, wine tasting, brandy tasting, fashion show, car expo,
live music entertainment, Food tasting and
small business exhibition. Over 5000 visitors are expected to attend the festival.
The fun filled festival will boast the likes
of entertainment wizard DJ Euphonik, DJ
Kaunda, Ill Skilz, Driemanskap, Kop Afrosoul, Twa, Sir Vincent, Sakhile Baleni,
James and Sideshow, D-Nice, Marimba
Band, DJ Aija, Adzey Bulldozar, Kaap Koalition and the programme director will be
Sabelo.
General tickets cost R80, and the special
for two days will cost R120 while VIP tickets
will be sold at R150 and the special tickets
over two days will cost you R250.
For further details regarding this prestigious event, you can contact Bulelani
Goottsch on 0791661994 or email to [email protected].