By Lolwethu Leeu and Phumlani Saul
PARTYGOERS were left disappointed on Saturday when the eMandulo and Cultural Music Festival was suddenly cancelled.
This came after the event, which was meant to take place at Lower Drostdy Central Stadium in Uitenhage , Eastern Cape, had previously been postponed once.
The gates to the eMandulo Cultural and Music Festival at the Central Fields in Uitenhage were open on Saturday afternoon, but after hours of waiting patrons realised the much anticipated concert was not going to happen
The festival was supposed to feature local and international artists like Dr Rebecca Malope, Sjava, Lady Zamar,Ami Faku and Mshunqisi.
Music fans were left disappointed at the weekend after yet another failed festival in Nelson Mandela Bay.
People who bought tickets for the eMandulo Cultural and Music Festival are demanding refunds for the cancelled Uitenhage show.
Event organiser Mvuzo Mtyhobile told DK Team: “The artists who were meant to perform only after 8pm on Saturday that the event had been cancelled.
However, on Sunday, he promised those who had bought tickets that they would be refunded.
“People who bought tickets can go to Shoprite and get a full refund for the tickets they bought,” Mtyhobile said.
By 21.30pm on Saturday there was still no stage or sound equipment for the festival, which was meant to have started at 2pm, at the Uitenhage Central Fields.
By then, cars lined Lower Drostdy Street and patrons already inside had started singing struggle songs as there was no music to keep them entertained.
On Saturday, concertgoers were not the only ones kept in the dark about whether the festival would go ahead or not.
Just hours before the event, Professor was seen at the Endaweni Lounge in KwaNobuhle, while Mshunqisi was detailing his journey to Uitenhage on his Instagram.
Mshunqisi’s manager, Samkelo Mpisane, said Mtyhobile had told them the show had been sabotaged, which was why they could not perform.
“When we arrived at our accommodation, I kept on calling him and asking what’s going on and he said he’d get back to me.
“Our performance time was 10pm and, when the time came, he said the event was no longer carrying on because it was being sabotaged,” Mpisane said.
Mvezo claims the show was Sabotage
“I received a WhatsApp message from someone telling me that they had been told tickets for the show had been sold out,” he said.
“I immediately phoned Computicket and was told tickets were still available.
“This supported my assertion that this was sabotage.
“Someone I know also gave me a call and told me that I had been blacklisted and that people did not want my show to succeed.
“When I asked what he meant by blacklisted, he did not give me an answer,” Mtyhobile said.
He added the sound and stage equipment had arrived only after 8pm.its obviously that this was a sabotage the stage supposed to arrive day before not only after 8pm,”
Zama Dick told Daily Kasi ” I’m so disappointed about what happened I was looking forward to spend the night with my girlfriend who is coming all the way from East London. ” I want my money back” said Dick
Zimkhitha Nqatha (25) said: ” Voetsek They must just refund us. I arrive around 13:00 look now it’s 21:00pm non of them come and informed us about is happening.
” Instead they brought us Hi-Fi to listen to that kak in the stadium, I should have seated in my house and play my Hi-Fi not at the stadium”said Zimkhitha
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