{"id":4687,"date":"2026-01-05T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:39:12","slug":"cape-towns-tweede-nuwe-jaar-to-make-history-with-first-ever-national-tv-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4687\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town\u2019s Tweede Nuwe Jaar to make history with first-ever national TV broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town is gearing up for the much-anticipated Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival in Green Point on Monday, and for the first time, the event will be broadcast live on national television.<\/p>\n<p>City spokesperson, Luthando Tyhalibongo, said tens of thousands of spectators are expected to line the parade route, with festivities kicking off at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2026\/01\/04\/ct-minstrel-carnival-association-calls-for-parade-route-to-be-declared-a-heritage-site\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CT Minstrel Carnival Association calls for parade route to be declared a heritage site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said the parade will make its way through the streets, concluding around 5pm before heading to the DHL stadium for the KKKA competition, which will run until 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time, the street parade will also be broadcast live on national television, starting on Sabc 2 from 12:00. This historic broadcast allows South Africans everywhere to share in the joy, pride and spectacle of the parade, further cementing its role as a unifying cultural moment,&#8221; said Tyhalibongo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Town is gearing up for the much-anticipated Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival in Green Point on Monday, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-4687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}