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CELEBRATING
2020!
POPULAR EVENTS OR PLACES
FOR RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
Staff Writer
It’s the one day in the year – 31 December – when everybody
let’s their hair down as we count down the minutes to usher
in the New Year…. At the stroke of midnight, champagne
corks pop, strangers hug and kiss each other, shouts of ‘happy
new year’ fill the air, canons go off, sirens wail, fireworks light
up the skies, cars and ships sound their hooters, and bands
strike up with Auld Lang Syne.
Some of us prefer to celebrate it more sedately with family
or close friends; others pay lots of money to attend one of
the big private parties; but most flock to public spaces where
huge crowds gather – think of London’s Piccadilly Square,
Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, or New York’s Time Square.
In South Africa the major public celebratory gatherings take
place at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, Durban’s Marine Parade
and Johannesburg’s central downtown area. But there’s much
happening elsewhere too, especially in the coastal towns
and resorts.
Below we provide a guide to some of this year’s New Year’s
Eve gatherings around the country – most of them free of
charge in public spaces. Unless stated otherwise, all listed
events take place on the night of Tuesday 31 December 2019
into Wednesday 1 January 2020.
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