{"id":13307,"date":"2025-10-09T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:35:51","slug":"joburg-back-to-the-city-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/?p=13307","title":{"rendered":"Joburg : Back to the City Festival\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your plans if you are in Joburg this weekend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa&#8217;s premier hip-hop festival, Back to the City, returns for its 19th annual edition at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Celebrating hip-hop culture with the theme &#8220;Power in Numbers,&#8221; the festival features an electrifying line-up of over 100 artists, 20 DJs, and 40 graffiti legends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendees can look forward to performances by American rapper&nbsp;Lupe Fiasco, alongside some of Mzansi&#8217;s biggest stars, including&nbsp;Cassper Nyovest,&nbsp;A Reece,&nbsp;Big Zulu,&nbsp;Emtee, and many others. Beyond the music, the festival offers a full cultural immersion with MC and DJ battles, a skate park, basketball games, and more. With 120 clothing stalls and 20 food vendors, the event promises a day of art, fashion, food, and high-energy entertainment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, October 11, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tickets:<\/strong>\u00a0Available at Webtickets.co.za and Pick n Pay outlets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your plans if you are in Joburg this weekend South Africa&#8217;s premier hip-hop festival, Back to the City, returns for its 19th annual edition at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Celebrating hip-hop culture with the theme &#8220;Power in Numbers,&#8221; the festival features an electrifying line-up of over 100 artists, 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_25071586472533619_109551237394069":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"South Africa's premier hip-hop festival, Back to the City, returns for its 19th annual edition at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Celebrating hip-hop culture with the theme \"Power in Numbers,\" the festival features an electrifying line-up of over 100 artists, 20 DJs, and 40 graffiti legends. ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[602],"tags":[331,332],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsroom","tag-events","tag-joburg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13308,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions\/13308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}