FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

20 February 2024

9th annual Adwa x Salt River victory festivities in Cape

Town, South Africa
Adwa movement is pleased to announce DST-NRF SARChl chair in innovation Studies at TUT,
Professor Mammo Muchie as the Chief Patron of the annual Adwa x Salt River victories
celebration. Professor Mammo Muchie is one of the leading pan-African voices in Academia
championing African innovation for development.

“Here is a major battle, Europeans meet in Berlin 1884-1885 and decide to chop upthe
continent 10 11 years later, Ethiopians win at Adwa which is in direct contradiction, in direct
conflict with what Berlin had decided: Africa must be clonised, The Ethiopians said: Africa will
not be colonised, and succeeded” - Thabo Mbeki, UNISA chancellor and former President.

Adwa movement is a grassroots heritage community civil society platform based in South Africa.
It has partnered and collaborated with a broad-based coalition of civil society actors, creatives,
practitioners, artists and businesses who collectively associate and support the Adwa movement,
we thereby invite the public to attend the Adwa Victory parade 2024.

The public parade event commemorates the 128th anniversary of the African victory at Adwa in
1896 and the 514th anniversary of the African victory at Salt River in 1510.

Khoi and San language rights activists will be performing a ritual ceremony to commemorate the
Battle of Salt River, the group will be lead by well-know language activist Mr. Bradley Van Sitters
who was the praise singer to President Ramaphosa in 2019.

The highlight of the celebrations on the 1 of March is the Victory Parade. The music concert with
pioneering Cape Town hip hop acts like Mr. Mercy and DJ RealROZZANO, hip hop culture
trailblazers Niko10Long, YOMA and Miss Morena and the prominent reggae band Sons of
Selassie will take place on 29 February at Wave Theatre Cafe from 7pm till 12am.
The Adwa movement as a heritage community advances social justice and human rights issues.
For past 8 years Adwa movement has delivered a memorandum to parliament regarding the
marginalisation and atrocities experienced by RasTafari communities in South Africa. This year
we are planning to collate the 8 memorandums delivered since 2016 and this collation will have
statement of purpose as the 9th memorandum.

The delivery of the memorandum to the secretary of the speaker of the South African Parliament
has been done annually of the Adwa movement's programme to mark the Adwa Victory parade.
This will be precluded by a ceremonial parade from Kreizengracht parking lot down to
Parliament where the secretary to the speaker will be receiving the memorandum from the Adwa
movement's leadership.

Legalisation Ambassador, cannabis decriminalization expert and activist lawyer Gareth Prince
who has been at forefront of the legal battle against the State to decriminalise cannabis will be
present at this historic anniversary celebration. Leaders from the various organisations involved
will make short addresses in celebration of Adwa x Salt River Victory.

“If we are united, we know how to own Africa. And when we know how to own Africa, our
people will benefit a lot. That unity is critical. Adwa Victory is the best example to bring African
unity,” – Prof. Mammo Muchie, DST-NRF research chair in Innovation Studies at the Faculty of
Management Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology.

“In the pursuit of thought leadership, we need to tap into the as yet unmined riches of Africa’s
past leadership experiences. Although there were challenges in early Africa, we must learn from
the glorious past such as the victories of the Ethiopian Adwa, Khoi resistance against Portuguese
colonialists” - Prof. Vusi Gumede, Dean for the Faculty of Economics, Development & Business
Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga.

Notes for Editor:

Adwa Day celebrations 2024 will be a 3-day programme, taking place on 29 February, 1 and 2
March, the festivities will be taking place for the ninth consecutive year on the 128th Anniversary
of Adwa Victory Day, which is also an official holiday in Ethiopia. This is a day to affirm and
reflect on an independent African nation that defeated the European colonisers.

The purpose of the Event:

1. Raising awareness and increasing Public understanding of intangible pan-African cultural

heritage. The main focus of Adwa movement is the preservation, prmotion, restoration and
development of pan-African cultural heritage
2. THIS EVENT IS NOT ABOUT DAGGA LEGALISATION.

Contact:

For information on Adwa Victory celebrations 2024 events and interviews with organisers and
community leaders: contact Adwa movement - PRO, Ras Hein 0847878033
 Adwa Day 2024 Schedule:

Cape Town City bowl: the national and transcontinental celebrations of Adwa x Salt River victory
will take place on 29 February, 1 and 2 March.

29 February event starts 7pm at Wave Theatre Cafe, 44 Long Street.

Music concert, World-class lineup of reggae, hip hop, dancehall and acoustic artists.
1. 19H00: Opening performance
2. 23H15: Closing performance

1 March the event starts 8am on Kreizengracht parking lot.

Highlights include:
1. 8H00-11H00: Assembling and Rallying at Kreizersgracht Parking lot, An inter-faith Priesthood
will open the Event with prayers and hymns, organisers will address the participants to ensure
discipline and a collective vision of the day's schedule.
2. 11H00-12H00: The procession starts towards Parliament, The procession will have a
Nyhabingi choir singing, playing the drums and chanting throughout.
3. 12H00-13H00: Addresses in front of Parliament by special guest speakers, organisational
representatives and community leaders.
4. 13H00-14H00: The procession returns to Keizersgracht Parking Lot, Closing prayers and a
vote of thanks.

2 March the event starts 10am at the Castle of Good Hope, conference venue.
Highlights include:
1. 10H00-11H00: Welcoming at Koena Art Institute at the Castle
2. 11H00-12H20: ADWA film screening, Director Haile Gerima captures a collage of Ethiopian
landscapes, paintings, photographs and faces, the film illuminates one of the hidden sources
of African empowerment.
3. 12H30-13H10: Keynote lecture by Prof. Muchie with by Prof. Muchie with Q&A + closing
remarks, Conclusion
4. 13H20-13H50: KoiSan not coloured film screening, the Director Shato Tibone has indicated
that he will join the seminar.
5. 13H50-14H20: special guest Jacob Cloete author of the book Attempted Erasure of Khoekhoe
and San will unpack the concepts of his book
6. 14H20-15H40: Vote of thanksQ&A + closing remarks, Conclusion and networking session
with the participants, stakeholders and leaders involved