Get ready to bring in 2018 at the Joburg Carnival

The Joburg Carnival is back, so you can be sure the Joburg CBD will be the place to be on New Year’s Eve.

Live performances will feature: The Soil, Nadia Nakai, Bucie, Samthing Soweto, Euphonik, K.O, Reason, MsCosmo and many more.

The Joburg Carnival has become an annual tradition that celebrates the city’s reputation as a melting-pot of different cultural traditions. The carnival will start at noon on 31 December from Kotze Street, Hillbrow, allowing residents and visitors to take part and enjoy.

The event calls for Joburgers to take pride in their city and come together to celebrate its pulsating energy and diversity.

The procession moves from Hillbrow, through the streets of the inner city, along Rahima Moosa Street (previously Jeppe Street) into Newtown at the Mary Fitzgerald Square precinct. The carnival will end at 5pm.

The very popular and much anticipated Joburg New Year’s Eve event will start at 6pm and will feature two stages at Mary Fitzgerald Square and Newtown Park.

Various genres of music, including afro-pop, hip-hop and house will represent the eclectric rhythms and cosmopolitan mix of the people of Joburg that make the city unique.

Music artists will entertain the crowd and join them to party into the early hours of the new year.

Cooler boxes, alcohol, hubbly-bubbly pipes, fireworks and weapons will not be allowed into the New Year’s Eve event venue.

There will be a strong presence of law enforcement to maintain law and order and emergency management services will be present to attend to all emergencies on the night.

Please note that the M1 North and South will have two left lanes closed from 8pm until 11pm from Carr Street to Anderson Street. From 11pm until 1am there will be a full road closure.

Also read: What to do for New year’s Eve in Joburg