Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 a huge success
Fans watching from home wished to see the entire performance by Bey and Jay-Z.
Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, a charity concert honouring Nelson Mandela was a huge success following thousands of people bringing South Africa to a shutdown to support the much-anticipated concert, which offered fans free tickets in exchange for taking action to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Held at the FNB Stadium, this qualifies to be the best 2018 highlight for most. The festival wasn’t only focused on entertaining the crowd, social issues were addressed as well.
By the end of the evening, together with the help of governments, corporates and organisations for social change, financial commitments were made to help eradicate poverty.
The festival also brought out the best in some very wealthy people as it saw a spate of international business figures and world leaders pledge huge sums of money towards fighting the inequality that blights Africa.
Belgium commits to invest €43 million in women and girls to create a world where #ShelsEqual.
Mozambique announced a new public-private partnership to fight malaria between Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Global Fund and Goodbye Malaria, committing $30 million to protect over 6 million people by 2022.
Vodacom commits R500 000 000 to fight gender-based violence, enhance sanitation in schools and enhance digital literacy.
In a message to #GlobalCitizenFestivalSA, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces her country will: Commit €63M to International Fund for Agricultural Development double its funding of GP for Education from €18M to €37M Increase its funding of Education Cannot Wait by €15M for a total of €31M.
Speaking at the event, Patrice Motsepe announced that the Motsepe Foundation will donate R3.5 billion to help with the contentious issue of land reform in the country and the sustainable development goals.
The likes of Naomi Campbell, Tyler Perry and Oprah appeared to highlight social issues and humanitarian outreach programmes to improve education, health and gender equalities in Africa. Artists from around the world were a part of the initiative that encourages people worldwide to help eradicate poverty.
Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Ed Sheeran, Chris Martin, Sho Madjozi, D’banj, Cassper Nyovest, Black Coffee, Wizkid, Eddie Vedder, Femi Kuti and Tiwa Savage were the artists who allowed those who attended to celebrate the father of the nation, Nelson Mandela, in song and dance.
Meanwhile Jay-Z and Beyoncé left fans watching from home heart broken because they only got to see 25 minutes of the power couple’s performance, as they restricted Global Citizen performance broadcast, in an effort to keep their performance exclusive for those who have earned their tickets to attend Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100.
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