It was a jovial mood at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria as thousands of guests dressed to the nines trickled in ahead of the Presidential Inauguration on Saturday morning.
Despite at least 32 000 guests expected, parts of the capital seemed like a ghost town due to many road closures. Instead, the streets around Hatfield, Arcadia and Sunnyside were filled with men in blue as a heavy contingency of various police units and metro police officers were on guard. But there were those who arrived at midnight to wait for the opening of the accreditation centre. Victoria Maloka, from Pankop in Mpumalanga, said she spent the night in the capital, awaiting the opening of the stadium.
Dressed in a black and gold outfit, Tsonga music sensation and reality TV star Papa Penny was amongst the crowd. He said arrived at the park-and-ride depot at 3AM. Guests dressed in their different colourful African clothing got on their feet in dance when they were entertained by performances by the Tshwane Gospel Choir, Abathandwa Musical Group and Grammy-award winning groups Soweto Gospel Choir and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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