{"id":431702,"date":"2020-09-07T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=431702"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T07:01:08","slug":"cape-town-wants-to-host-south-africas-first-major-coronavirus-safe-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/431702\/cape-town-wants-to-host-south-africas-first-major-coronavirus-safe-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town wants to host South Africa&#8217;s first major &#8216;coronavirus-safe&#8217; event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cape Town has written to the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture requesting that it be allowed to host a major drive-in as a proof of concept for future events around South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The request comes after Arts and Culture minister Nathi Mthethwa met with members of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/431336\/new-proposals-to-re-open-the-events-industry-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">events industry<\/a><\/strong> last week to discuss the reopening of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the meeting, the South African Communication Industries Association (SACIA) presented the stringent safety measures and protocols they plan have put in place to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 at events organised by any of their affiliated member organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the proposals include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prohibition of the consumption of alcohol at events with over 300 participants;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A separate safety plan for 1,000 participants (drive-ins);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Using technology, such as electronic capacity monitoring systems, to track how many participants are at events at any given time;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New regulations on the number of participants at events, currently set at 50 people, to take into consideration the size\/area or total capacity of venues and not the current 50 participants\u2019 restriction, as this does not ensure that safety protocols of social distancing are respected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The City of Cape Town has expressed interest in the new proposals and said it would be interested in hosting a drive-in event with 1,000 participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have written to the national department requesting that the City of Cape Town be allowed to host a drive-in event to showcase the proof of concept for such future events,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe we are equipped and have established platforms to test and to evaluate the feasibility of hosting such a proof of concept drive-in event in the Mother City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city said that the event will assist the events industry to commence recovery and to alleviate the economic distress it is currently facing.<\/p>\n<p>It said that its Events Coordination Committee (ECC) has drawn up a standard operating document to be used as a guide for event organisers as part of the permit application process. These are in line with the Disaster Management Act and national health directives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a major focus on a contactless environment, strict health and safety protocols for all events to ensure the safety of participants, staff, service providers and patrons as a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city has already implemented standard operating procedures which have allowed the film industry to operate in a safe environment over the last four months and we believe our event protocols will achieve the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/431336\/new-proposals-to-re-open-the-events-industry-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New proposals to re-open the events industry in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cape Town has written to the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture requesting that it be allowed to host a major drive-in as a proof of concept for future events around South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":135757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-431702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431748,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431702\/revisions\/431748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}