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No National Stadium, no main music festival - Pabalinga

Thapelo Pabalinga PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Thapelo Pabalinga PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The popular Gaborone International Music and Culture Week (GIMC) is back again but the main music festival will not partake this year.

According to the event director, Thapelo 'Fish' Pabalinga, the show will not go on because they were told the National stadium was not available.

He explained that the stadium was the only venue that could commensurate with the size of the crowd that always attends the festival. Pabalinga expressed a displeasure at the unavailability of the venue saying the creative value chain would suffer.

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