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MBABANE – For the year 2024, MTN Bushfire is coming up with more improved and sustainable modifications to their facilities.
It’s time to start planning your MTN Bushfire experience ahead of the 17th edition, taking place from May 31 to June 2, 2024, at the iconic House on Fire performance venue at the Malkerns Valley of Eswatini.
Every year, this conscious international festival of music and the arts welcomes over 20 000 Fire Starters from over 60 countries to a celebration of diversity and social inclusion in a family-friendly atmosphere.
MTN Bushfire is one of Africa’s largest multicultural gatherings, illuminating the transformational power of the arts through their call to action for positive social and environmental change, Bring Your Fire.
The festival is renowned for its eclectic programme featuring some of the finest musical and artistic talents from across Africa and around the globe.
Exciting
In a new, exciting development this year, the festival is treating early camping arrivals to an exclusive programme in the Bring Your Fire Zone on Thursday, May 30, and the chance to be part of the festival’s #GreenYourFire call to action for positive environmental change.
Arriving early for the festival’s Thursday programme means less queueing at border entry points to Eswatini and at the festival’s camping check-in. It also offers Bring Your Own campers the opportunity to pick a prime spot, for example, under a shady tree, close to the ablution blocks, or by the gates to the festival’s main arena.
The Thursday programme promises to be a memorable start to another explosive festival weekend!
Campers will enjoy a safe and seamless experience with numerous upgrades to the campsite.
#GreenYourFire will come alive once again in the camping space and across the festival zones through this year’s improved sustainability efforts and programmes.
The overall size of the campsite has been substantially increased, and campsite amenities at MTN Bushfire have been upgraded.
Upgraded
The campsite has further upgraded toilet facilities with more toilets, including a compostable toilet block, convenience stalls for food, WiFi and airtime and other upgrades.
Additionally, the Camper Car Zone has doubled in size and is now closer to the festival.
More shuttle vehicles will be made available from the parking lot to the campsite.
MTN Bushfire’s normal high level of security will be further enhanced with upgrades such as a designated campsite clinic for any emergencies and a fixed police post within the site to prevent any issues.
As MTN Bushfire continues to Green its Fire by reducing the festival’s carbon and waste footprint, all bars continue to provide recyclable cups, and the festival and campsite’s
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6:00 Sivukile Eswatini; 8:00 High Echelons (R); 8:30 Political Eye (R); 9:00 Spiritual High (R); 10:00 Side Chick for Christmas Part 3 (R); 11:00 Ingcinamba (R); 11:30 Morning Jams; 12:30 Motivational Video; 1:30 Tindzaba Update; 2:00 Youth Zone; 3:00 Tindzaba Update; 3:30 Battle Of The Stars; 4:00 Imvuselelo; 5:00 Your Choice; 6:00 Moment of Power; 6:30 Telidlelantfongeni; 7:00 Documentary; 7:30 Tindzaba; 8:00 Only Believe; 8:30 Ingcinamba; 9:00 Sincephetelo MVA Fund; 10:00 News; 10:30 ASide Chick for Christmas Part 4; 11:30 Music mix. overall recycling systems are being further developed in collaboration with eco-conscious festival partners. (Please use the correct bins for all waste at the festival!).
Festivalgoers are encouraged to carpool and use the festival’s Park n’ Ride shuttle to avoid traffic congestion and to reduce the festival’s carbon footprint.
Campers will also enjoy an immersive, elevated nature experience with the 300 trees planted over the years by All Out Africa.
All trees planted in the campsite are indigenous and propagated on Malandela’s Farm by Malandela’s Indigenous Nursery.
The extension of the campsite areas, through the conversion of the farm’s sugar cane fields to grassland and indigenous trees, is part of the re-wilding programme for sections of Malandela’s Farm.
More farmed sugar cane fields have been re-wilded through the planting of indigenous trees and grasses, a process that is ongoing.
Secure
Family campers will once again have their own secure and family-friendly camping areas, with the Family and Rush Adventures camps having exclusive gate or route access to the main arena; shorter and more direct, cutting the distance they have to travel to one-quarter the distance, perfect for those little Fire Starters, as they head to the MTN Bushfire Kid Zone.
The MTN Bushfire Kid Zone will be filled with stimulating and fun-filled activities ranging from storytelling, sculpting, and music workshops to high-energy lawn games. Each year, the festival works with a special theme for the zone that inspires creativity, engagement and skill development for young people of all ages.
This year’s theme, ‘African Safari’, is an environmentally conscious, fun and interactive theme centred around the conservation of wild African flora and fauna.
Kid Zone partners, in collaboration with festivalgoers, will explore re-wilding themes and assimilate natural habitats through various activities offered in the space. 11:30 House Of Zwide; 12:00 Scandal!; 12:30
Smoke And Mirrors; 1:00
Isitha - The Enemy; 1:30 Paternity Court; 2:00 My Guest Tonight...With Annika Larsen; 2:30 Takalani Sesame; 2:55 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitsu; 3:20 Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures; 3:45
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous; 4:10 uBettina Wethu; 4:35 Judge Judy; 5:00 Annekan Die Swa Kry; 6:00 Ouma Sarie; 6:30 eKasi: Our Stories; 7:00 House Of Zwide; 7:30 Scandal!; 8:00 e.tv news; 8:30 Redemption; 9:00 Smoke And Mirrors; 9:30 Isitha - The Enemy; 10:00 uMbali; 10:30 Heist; 11:00 Winter Son.