City of Cape Town distances itself from Cape Cultural and Carnival delays

Loyiso Langeni
15 January 2015

The City of Cape Town says that the Cape Cultural and Carnival Committee has failed to pay certain service providers as part of their event permit application.

The committee was given R2 million and R2, 35 million by the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape government to organise the event. 

The Tweede Nuwejaar minstrel parade has been postponed twice. 

Mayor Patricia de Lille Spokesperson Zara Nicholson said the city would like to make it exclusively clear that if the event does not take place on Saturday, absolutely no one can blame the city as it will be because the committee has failed to pay services providers with the money that the city has given them.

Nicholson added that If the event does not go ahead they will also take steps to reclaim the money we have given them to organise the parade.