Report lifts lid on ‘South Africa’s Fyre Festival’
The 100,000-cap TribeOne Dinokeng Festival was cancelled days before it was due to take place after selling just a few hundred tickets
News By James Hanley | 18 August 2023
A new report has shed fresh light on a failed music spectacular in South Africa that was abruptly cancelled days before it was due to take place, drawing comparisons with the disastrous Fyre Festival.
The 100,000-cap TribeOne Dinokeng Festival was scheduled to be staged in Dinokeng, near Cullinan, from 26-28 September 2014 – pre-dating the Fyre fiasco by almost three years – but was pulled by organisers after selling just a few hundred tickets.
The project, billed as “Africa’s biggest festival”, was to…