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 | | | 2009 Festival Announcement
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In many cultures throughout history the annual tradition of a community festival celebrating leadership, lifestyle, community spirit, cultural creativity, entrepreneurial achievement & excellence, artistry, music & sporting prowess – is joyfully observed. South Africa is no exception.
Remarkably, 2008 heralds the 25th Anniversary of the vast, sprawling community of Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. The Khayelitsha Festival, due to be staged from 24th to 26th October, will reflect and crystallize the genesis and development of Khayelitsha over the last 25 years. | | |  | | | Khayelitsha Festival Tour
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| | | Involving the entire Western Cape community
“It is imperative that access to business information, career guidance, promotion of work opportunities and the stimulation of an entrepreneurial culture be promoted through the Khayelitsha Festival,” said Simon Grindrod, City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Economic and Social Development after the City passed a resolution on 16th April to support the Festival with R800 000 of funding. | | |  | | The Khayelitsha Festival will become the principal, annual, hallmark event in Khayelitsha that draws together business, SMMEs, youth, community organizations, consumers, media and thousands of people on an annual basis to celebrate the creativity, energy, richness and diversity of Khayelitsha and the diverse surrounding communities. It will be the largest event of its kind in the Western Cape and act as a powerful force of social cohesion, bringing the first and the second economies of the City of Cape Town together in a grand, community celebration of cultural, social and economic growth and development. Though event is to be staged in
| | | | Khayelitsha, it aims to attract visitors from the many surrounding communities of Mitchell’s Plain, Langa, Grassy Park, Crossroads, Gugulethu and other townships on the Cape Flats, as well as residents from the rest of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
The target population is upwards of 3 million people. The Festival should therefore be seen as a powerful social cohesion vehicle for this wider community to participate and celebrate, with Cape Town being the theatre and Khayelitsha the stage for the event. | |
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