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This category is for festivals of South Africa, including fairs, parades, arts festivals, folk festivals, and other types. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Homowo: a harvest festival [1] celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana. Incwala: celebrated by the people of Swaziland; New Yam Festival (Iwa ji): celebrated by the Igbo of Nigeria; Umkhosi Wokweshwama: celebrated by the Zulu people of South Africa; Mokete wa Mokopu: celebrated by the Makgolokwe-a-Mafhleng of South Africa
Heritage Day (Afrikaans: Erfenisdag; Xhosa: Usuku Lwamagugu, Usuku lokugubha amasiko) is a South African public holiday celebrated on 24 September. On this day, South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people.
The National Arts Festival (NAF) is an annual festival of performing arts in Makhanda, South Africa. It is the largest arts festival on the African continent [2] and one of the largest performing arts festivals in the world by visitor numbers. [3] The festival runs for 11 days, from the last week of June to the first week of July every year.
The festival has mass participation by young men, as Umkhosi woMhlanga has by young women. There is a black bull sacrifice in the king's kraal as the young men work together to kill the animal without weapons, which was the subject of a failed lawsuit by South African animal rights activists in 2009.
The Mangaung African Cultural Festival (MACUFE) is an annual showcase of African arts, culture and various sports disciplines that takes place in Bloemfontein, South Africa. It is one of the largest emerging festivals in Africa; it grew from having an audience of 30 000 in 1997 to 140 000 in 2015.
Arts festivals in South Africa (4 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Cultural festivals in South Africa" This category contains only the following page.
Theatre festivals in South Africa (2 P) Pages in category "Arts festivals in South Africa" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.