2012 Macufe Festival

Its time to enjoy the African cultural festival
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Whether you into sports events or into music events, I am pretty sure October is your favourite month since this is the month when the Macufe festival takes places. The Macufe festival is also known as the Mangaung African Cultural festival. This exciting event is presented by Bashomi baAfrica. The 2012 Macufe festival takes places between the 5th October and 14th October in Bloemfotein. This is an annual event and has been celebrated for more than 10 years, it was launched by Free State Provincial Government in 1997 as a celebration of arts and culture in the province. Macufe festival is important to to the Free State province as it attract more and more people each and every year. Its been atrracting an audience of over 140 000 people, making it one of the biggest cultural festival on the African continent. The price tickets range from event to event:

Different programmes taking place at the
Macufe Festival
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• Macufe Gospel R100
• Ons Konsert R150
• Macufe Comedy R150
• Macufe Indoor Jazz R200
• Macufe Divas Concert R200
• Macufe Main Music Festival R280

This festival programme includes a diverse range of events:

1. Stand-up comedy
2. Arts Exhibition
3. Poetry
4. A film Festival
5. Arts and crafts markets
6. Fashion market
7. Sporting events ( Macufe Cup and Macufe Golf Tournament

Laugh your lungs out at the stand-up comedy
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Angie Stone will be entertaining the fans
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 This event really means alot to the department of Arts and Culture in the Free State as it will attract more tourist in the province that will come from other provinces or countries to come and enjoy the Macufe festival.

Local and international artists will be performing:

• Thandiswa
• Bebe Winans
• Selaelo Selota
• Oliver Mtukudzi
• Johnny Gill
• Jimmy Dludlu
• Heinz Winkler
• Elvis Blue
• Lira