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Mzoli Ngcawuzele, Premier Helen Zille,
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GUGULETHU WINE FESTIVAL IS THE STAR OF CAPE TOWN
For Immediate Release
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GUGULETHU, CAPE TOWN, 30
MAY 2011 - The debut TOPS
Gugulethu Wine Festival was the shining
star in Cape Town over the 27th and 28th
May weekend. It is being hailed as a major
success by the 2050 visitors, 37 exhibitors
and over 120 media that attended over
the two evenings on the rooftop of the
Gugulethu Square Mall.
The festival was officially opened by
Cape Town Premier Helen Zille,
who commented that you can no longer say
Cape Town is not a wonderfully integrated
city as one looked over the sea of people
that packed the wine tasting marquee on
Friday. She thanked co-founders Mzoli
Ngcawuzele and Lungile Mbalo for their
vision in bringing people together in
wine and spent an hour walking, talking
and taking questions.
Mzoli Ngcawuzele, co-founder and owner
of Mzoli’s Place, says “Thank
you to TOPS at Spar and all the sponsors,
media and residents that attended to make
this festival the huge success it was.
Thank you to our Premier Helen Zille for
her unwavering commitment, support and
vision for the growth of her Gugulethu
township. It will be bigger and better
next year and I just can’t wait!
Think fun, think Gugulethu Wine Festival.”
Marilyn Cooper, Managing Director of
Cape Wine Academy, Cape Wine Master
and organiser of the wineries to the festival
says, “This is the start of a new
dawn for wineries and Cape Town’s
new consumers. The 2050 visitors to the
festival are our future wine consumers
and this event, and together with the
Soweto Wine Festival, is the Cape Wine
Academy’s vision of wine education
coming to life. We applaud the wineries
that supported the debut festival. We
look forward to many more wineries attending
next year.”
It is a sobering certainty to our South
African Wineries that we have a very large,
very smart, new wine-loving market and
they are just across the road and they
must adjust their marketing campaigns
to include wine festivals like Soweto
and Gugulethu and speak to this market
directly. It is the ‘trailblazers’,
the early adopters that will remain in
the hearts and minds in the long run.
Co-founder Lungile Mbalo says, “It
was an excellent event. We are very proud.
Although there is always room for improvement,
the festival has been embraced by so many
people from the Western Cape and the rest
of the country. The mere fact that the
First Citizen of Cape Town [Premier Helen
Zille] was there made this an exciting
and exceptional festival for all. We are
very grateful to the wineries that supported
this festival in its debut year and to
our sponsors and we look forward to the
next one.”
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