{"id":147729,"date":"2023-06-21T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/?p=147729"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:29:32","slug":"shimza-advocates-higher-ticket-prices-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/shimza-advocates-higher-ticket-prices-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimza advocates higher ticket prices in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shimza advocates higher ticket prices in South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/tag\/shimza\/\">Shimza<\/a><\/strong> whose real name is Ashley Raphala speaks about the need for event organisers to provide more to festival-goers. The DJ has been touring different international countries over the years, and his experience made him realise that festival goers in SA are not given the best treatment at gigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he suggested that the ticket prices should get a bit costly in other to achieve such &#8220;The more you travel the more you understand that as event promoters in SA, we have to offer more to festival-goers than just the line up and we hope festival goers can understand the value they can get with a bit of a higher ticket price&#8221;, he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shimza&#8217;s debate didn&#8217;t end well for him as some social media users claim he is fighting for his benefit and not the festival-goers. He was slammed for advocating higher prices for tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ibisiza kahle le post until the ticket prices suggestion being higher, some of us can&#39;t afford Kunye tickets n you believe international festivals would survive in S.A.<br>Unless you do it once or twice a year, &quot;you might succeed&quot;<\/p>&mdash; Brian Sithembele Dakuse (@BrianDakuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianDakuse\/status\/1670923695563460610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You want this ka ticket ya R150 \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ljNqUErCo\">pic.twitter.com\/7ljNqUErCo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SHIMZA (@Shimza01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shimza01\/status\/1670822171206139906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plan your life and save for things you want to do, that also applies to entertainment.<\/p>&mdash; SHIMZA (@Shimza01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shimza01\/status\/1670828329220407296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shimza advocates higher ticket prices in South Africa Shimza whose real name is Ashley Raphala speaks about the need for event organisers to provide more to festival-goers. The DJ has been touring different international countries over the years, and his experience made him realise that festival goers in SA are not given the best treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":147733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}