The 2021 Plett Rage festival has been cancelled due to a significant number of individuals reporting positive Covid-19 test results.<\/p>\n
Organisers said<\/a><\/strong> on Thursday that an alarming number of positive cases were being reported to them by their potential festivalgoers. The event was scheduled to kick off on Friday, 3 December.<\/p>\n “Almost all schools set to attend Plett Rage have positive cases. Based on the trajectory of this virus, this is only a tiny percentage of what we are now certain will show up. The numbers are only going to increase rapidly,” the Rage organisers said.<\/p>\n “Although we, as organisers, have implemented the most stringent Covid-19 preventive measures, there was no way to preempt the devastation that the current surge of Covid-19 cases nationally would cause.”<\/p>\n Their statement also indicated that ticket holders would receive further information via email.<\/p>\n The news comes after organisers announced the cancellation of the Ballito Rage festival<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “Between 14:00 and 22:00 on Tuesday, 940 guests and staff were tested, with 32 guests and four staff returning positive results,” the organisers said.<\/p>\n “While we understand the disappointment that this causes for those who were looking forward to enjoying the festival, these are unprecedented times,” the organisers said.<\/p>\n They added that ticket holders would receive further information in the coming days via email.<\/p>\n Rage organisers have cancelled their Plett festival one day before it was set to kick off due to a surge of Covid-19 cases among potential festivalgoers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":425628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[74810,63397,74740,74812],"class_list":["post-425968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-ballito-rage","tag-covid-19","tag-matric-rage","tag-plett-rage-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425974,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425968\/revisions\/425974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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