Mbombela – Innibos is in the midst of a storm that rages on social media after it became known that Steve Hofmeyr was not invited to this year’s KKNK Festival in Oudtshoorn.
Supporters of the festival that won the Fiësta Award for most popular festival in 2013, is furious and the majority threatens to boycott it.
Laevelder asked its readers on their Facebook page if they would attend the festival this year as Steve would be part of the program and received a very strong response. More than 400 Facebook users left comments within a few hours and almost all agreed that if Steve Hofmeyr won’t feature at Innibos this year, they will not set foot near the festival.
It all started when Steve sang the former South African national anthem “Die Stem” during last year’s Innibos. He has been criticized from several quarters and it is regarded as anything but beneficial to race relations. Festival management was not informed of this beforehand and was just as surprised about Steve’s song choice.
Previously one of the biggest Afrikaans entertainment festivals in South Africa, the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) has announced that it will not allow Afrikaner activist Steve Hofmeyr to perform at its annual festival in 2015.
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