Bastille festival with a twist in Franschhoek
2007-05-31
THE annual Franschhoek Bastille Festival will be taking place on 14 and 15 July and this year’s festival will not be one of only food and wine, but local history will also be incorporated.
Each year hundreds of people desend upon the food and wine capitol of South Africa to celebrate its French Huguenot past.
The Huguenots settled here in the 1600’s escaping turmoil in their own country and bringing with them their fine skills such as wine making.
But this year the festival will have an alternative twist to it, in incorporating the South African liberation with that of the French, many centuries ago.
Tokyo Sexwale has been made the patron of the Franchhoek Wine Valley Tourism and tonight he will be unveiling the new Bastille Festivities at a lavish function in Cape Town.
Amongst the new additions to this ever popular festival will be The Long Walk to Freedom, Guillotining of the Social Evil ‘Crime’, The Bastille Day Golf Challenge and The Bastille Day Ball.
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