{"id":7324,"date":"2026-01-06T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7324\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:25:20","slug":"cape-town-spectators-gather-for-tweede-nuwe-jaar-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/7324\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town spectators gather for Tweede Nuwe Jaar parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spectators have gathered along Somerset Road in Green Point on Monday for the much-anticipated Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Street vendors set up food trucks and gazebos along the route. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The City of Cape Town said around 20,000 performers were expected to take part in the festivities.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">ALSO READ:<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2026\/01\/05\/20-000-minstrels-prepare-for-green-point-takeover\" target=\"_blank\"> 20,000 minstrels prepare for Green Point takeover<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The minstrel street parade did not take place on the traditional historic route. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Minstrels were set to advance up Somerset Road towards the DHL Stadium with what was expected to be a notably smaller crowd than in previous years. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">While spectators were still making their way along Somerset Road, spirits remained high. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">The parade was set to begin at 11am and was, for the first time, broadcast to every home in the country by the national broadcaster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectators have gathered along Somerset Road in Green Point on Monday for the much-anticipated Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7325,"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-7324","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\/7324","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=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}