Tom Neville, Mark Knight, Luke Ashworth and Paulo Mojo are amongst DJs headlining
South Africa's first 'Global Breakthrough Cape Town Club Town' next month, which
event organiser Jamie Joseph said this week is being staged to put South Africa on
the clubbing holiday destination map.
"Cape Town as a clubbing location is perfect, though the flights are more expensive
than Ibiza, it's incredibly cheap and over ten days you'll spend far less money,"
she told Skrufff.
"What we're doing with Global Breakthrough is staging seven events spread over ten
days and we're really trying to emphasise the outdoor locations; the boat party,
beach party and the villa party."
Resolutely upbeat about Cape Town's potential, Jamie added that helicopter trips and
sand-boarding are all available extremely cheaply with great white sharks an added
bonus rather than threat.
"There are sharks, sure and I wouldn't recommend going for long swims, but the
water's not that warm either so no-one's going to bitten by a shark as they're not
going to be swimming a kilometre out," she suggested. "It's a question of whether
you want to avoid them or play with them. You can go sharking diving at a place
called Langebann half an hour away up the coast and funnily enough some of the
clubbers coming have already asked about that."
She also insisted South Africa's reputation for crime is undeserved, stressing 'as
long as you don't go to Jo'Burg, it's fine. There's no sense of feeling unsafe in
the beach areas, you're protected and you'll never see the bad areas anyway. Having
said that, it's not a place to walk around dripping gold and diamond jewellery, but
you wouldn't do that in Brixton either. Jo'burg's pretty bad though," she added.
Global Breakthrough Cape Town Club Town takes place between the 9th and 19th March.
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