2012 Spring Fiesta Music Festival

Spring is here,time for outdoors events
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Winter is over its now time for spring. This is the time we enjoy being outdoors more frequently. Soul Candi once again decided to come up with the Spring Fiesta Music Festival. This event included over 50 of South Africa's hottest acts. This spectacular event took place on the 22nd of September 2012 at the Wild Waters Complex in Boksburg.The doors were opened from 11am until 1am. This event brought international music festival quality to South Africa's music fanatics. The 2012 Spring Fiesta Music Festival was organised by Soul Candi. Big Brother Productions and SAB's Castle Lite were some of the companies that co-branded with Soul Candi to make this event a success.
The tickets were sold a compu-ticket at:

• R120 (normal entery)
• R200 (VIP)
• R1000(VVIP)

Music lovers enjoying themselves
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This successful 2012 Spring Fiesta Music Festal was attended by a whooping 14 000 people. The line up included:

• DJ Tira
• DJ Clock
• Shimza
• Oskido
• Mphoza
• The Layabouts
• Mi Casa
• Black Coffee

Through the 2012 Spring Fiesta Music Festival event Soul Candi, Big Brother Productions and SAB's Castle Lite have managed to strengthen their brands and image and also to increase awareness of the event.

Heritage Day Celebrations in South Africa

This year's theme
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I am who I am because of my culture and all the beliefs that have been passed on from my great-grand parents to my parents and to me. Heritage is defined as something that is passed down from one generation to the next generation. Every year on the 24th of September, South Africa celebrates Heritage Day which is also known as National Braai Day. The aim of this day is to encourage people to celebrate their cultural heritage and diversity of their beliefs and traditions. It is also a day to celebrate the contribution of all South Africans to the building of South Africa. Way back in 2005, a media campaign was established to "re-brand" the holiday as National Braai Day, in recognition of the South African tasty tradition of holding informal backyard barbecues or braais. Furthermore, end of 2007 National Braai Day changed its name to Braai4Heritage and the initiative received the endorsement of South Africa's National Heritage Council (NHC). Most people celebrate this day by coming together as families and indulge in traditional home cooked meals.

Minenhle in traditional Zulu attire
Picture by Minenhle Ngcongo

I plan to celebrate this year's heritage day by dressing up in my traditional Zulu attire and cook for my family some traditional dishes:

• Umfino-Spinach
• Isijingi- Type og pumpkin
• Amaqina- A hoof of a cow
• Amadumbe- Potatoe like
• Tripe and dumplings

One of the radio station in South Africa Phalaborwa FM, it has organised an event which will be held on the 24th of September 2012 . This event will be held in Ga-Selwana Villiage at 10h00-15h00. The pupose of this event is:

1. To unite the community of Ba-Phalaborwa from different tribal houses and diverse cultures.
2. To embrace the common heritage we all share in a form of celebration.
3. To also educate the younger ones of their heritage, culture and tradition and that all these need to be respected.

There will be different activities which will be done during this event. Each tribal house will be having their activities to showcase. Activities will include traditional dance and singing.

Splendid 2012 Paralympics Closing Ceremony



Goodbye London 2012 Paralympic Games
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 Who said having a disability or being paralysed should keep you from taking part in anything that makes you happy? Well during the 2012 Paralympics Games also known as "Festival of the Flame" we witnessed people who had some kind of disability or who were paralysed do exceptionally good during this successful sports event. This was yet another terrific sports event, seeing people coming together to enjoy this spectacular sports event. People who were responsible for this event which was held on the 9th of September 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London were the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), these people were responsible for overseeing the planning and development of the 2012 summer olympic and paralympic games. They were jointly established by the UK Government's Department for:

• culture
• media and
• sport

LOCOG worked closely with the publicly to fund the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) which is responsible for the planning and construction of new venues and infrastructure.


It was sure a Festival of the Flame at the Olympic Stadium
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 This year's event was themed around festivals and the four seasons and the audienced were entertained to live performances by:

• Coldplay
• Rihanna
• Jay-Z

During this event the paralympic flag was passed from Boris Johnson who is the Mayor of London to Eduardo Paes the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, which will be the host city of the 2016 summer paralympics. There was also a 17-piece orchestra of musicians with disabilities who performed during this closing ceremony. With such sports events and including disabled musicians perform in such events , this could spread international awareness for disabled sportsmen, sportswomen and musicisns.

Rihanna performing during the 2012 Paralympic
Closing Ceremony
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The British national anthem was sang by the talented blind and autistic singer Lissa Hermans. Having been part of an estimated number of 7.7 million people who watched the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony I am sure we all enjoyed and were not disappointed with the outcome of this splendid Paralympic Closing Ceremony.