
25 April 2026
Ultra South Africa 2026 - Johannesburg
Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg
Ultra South Africa brings its large-scale electronic music production to Johannesburg, with global DJs, big-room dance stages, and late-night crowds at Nasrec.

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Weekends and dance floors
Multi-day music, art, culture, and outdoor gatherings where transport planning matters early.

25 April 2026
Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg
Ultra South Africa brings its large-scale electronic music production to Johannesburg, with global DJs, big-room dance stages, and late-night crowds at Nasrec.

26 April 2026
The Ostrich, Cape Town
Ultra Cape Town lands at The Ostrich for a high-energy electronic music day with immersive production, headline DJs, and a public-holiday weekend crowd.

27 April - 3 May 2026
Tankwa Town, Tankwa Karoo
The desert one. Art cars, dust roads, gifting culture, and a remote Tankwa arrival that rewards anyone who planned their lift properly.

June 2026
Grootvadersbosch Valley, Western Cape
Silver Mountain Music Festival is a weekend of classical, jazz, and world music in the Grootvadersbosch Conservancy valley, with concerts, conservation talks, outdoor activities, youth workshops, and rural Overberg hospitality.

3 - 12 July 2026
Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University
The Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival is a 10-day classical music education and performance festival, bringing student musicians together with international faculty for concerts, symphony evenings, masterclasses, and talks.

11 - 12 July 2026
Central Franschhoek, Western Cape
Franschhoek Bastille Festival is the Winelands' winter celebration of French flair, with wine tastings, gourmet food, live entertainment, and a village atmosphere dressed in blue, white, and red.

1 - 2 August 2026
Stellenbosch Town Hall, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch Wine Festival, part of Wine Town Stellenbosch, brings top Stellenbosch estates, hundreds of wines, food pairings, live music, and art into the historic town centre.

Spring 2026 date TBC
Pretoria, Gauteng
Lentedag is a student-focused outdoor spring music festival in Pretoria, with South African bands, DJs, and a large campus crowd celebrating the start of spring.

Late September 2026
Karoo 62 Farm, Ladismith
Karoo Rocks is an outdoor rock and alternative music gathering at Karoo 62 near Ladismith, built around camping, wide-open Klein Karoo landscapes, South African rock acts, braais, and laid-back road-trip energy.

25 - 26 September 2026
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
Standard Bank Joy of Jazz is one of Africa's leading jazz festivals, with multiple stages at Sandton Convention Centre and a programme of African and international jazz artists.

2 - 4 October 2026
Cloof Wine Estate, Darling
Cape Town's big music and lifestyle weekend: camping, stages, fashion, friends, and the classic west-coast festival run.

3 - 11 October 2026
Stellenbosch, Western Cape
Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees is a bilingual arts, language, literature, theatre, music, comedy, film, and cabaret festival across Stellenbosch venues.

22 - 25 October 2026
Karoo 1 Hotel Village, Touws River
Pangea is an immersive electronic music, art, workshop, and conscious community gathering in the Karoo, with the 2026 Soft Earth theme centred on rhythm, land, and reconnection.

November 2026 date TBC
Kaapzicht Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
Noble Vice Farm Feast is a boutique Winelands food and wine gathering where top winemakers and chefs collaborate on tastings, pairings, and live entertainment at Kaapzicht.

31 December 2026 - 2 January 2027
Kromrivier Farm, Riviersonderend
Little Forest NYE Festival returns to Kromrivier Farm for a three-day New Year camping festival with electronic music floors, art, healing spaces, a swimming dam, hot showers, and a psychonaut galaxy theme.

2026 date TBC
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Parklife Festival is an urban day festival in Johannesburg, blending rock, indie, pop, and alternative music with food vendors, creative activations, and a relaxed city-park atmosphere.

2026 date TBC
Wild Waters Complex, Boksburg
Spring Fiesta is a major day-and-night music festival in Ekurhuleni, with house, amapiano, hip-hop, afrotech, and deep house stages across the Wild Waters Complex.
Trade, academic, and business
Business, startup, academic, wine, tech, and industry events with reliable point-to-point travel.

23 April, 14 May, and 28 May 2026
Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
Future AI is a multi-city South African AI event series for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals, with Cape Town on 23 April 2026, Johannesburg on 14 May 2026, and Durban on 28 May 2026.

13 - 15 May 2026
Pullman Cape Town City Centre
The 8th International Conference on Innovative and Smart Materials gathers researchers and industry specialists around materials science, chemistry, physics, smart structures, and emerging applications.

26 - 27 May 2026
CTICC 2, Cape Town
Finance Magnates Africa Summit brings traders, brokers, fintechs, payments companies, and financial service providers together for practical learning, platform discovery, and industry networking.

26 May 2026
The Venue, Melrose Arch, Johannesburg
A one-day marketing and technology conference focused on AI-driven strategy, data-informed systems, retention, content quality, and practical campaign insights.

28 May 2026
Stellenbosch University Conservatory
The South Africa Wine Summit brings wine producers, exporters, marketers, economists, and policy voices together to unpack global trade, climate, consumer, and regulatory forces shaping the wine value chain.

10 - 12 June 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
Hotel & Hospitality Expo Africa is a procurement-led hospitality and food-service trade show, colocated with Africa Food Show, for hotels, restaurants, bars, foodservice businesses, and suppliers.

Mid-2026 date TBC
Johannesburg
Digital Transformation Summit South Africa is a C-suite technology summit focused on enterprise transformation, cloud, cybersecurity, AI strategy, data governance, and digital operations.

18 June 2026
Longlake, Modderfontein, Sandton
A full-day funding summit for South African SMEs, focused on funding readiness, finance pathways, compliance foundations, expert speakers, exhibitors, and funder connections.

19 June 2026
Century City, Cape Town
A free one-day entrepreneurship and SMME summit with practical business insights, procurement readiness, compliance guidance, masterclasses, and networking.

25 - 28 June 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
Decorex Cape Town is a major decor, design, interiors, and lifestyle trade show for designers, architects, homeowners, suppliers, and brands.

2 - 3 September 2026
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
Africa's large business expo for entrepreneurs, business owners, and decision makers, featuring seminars, networking zones, exhibitor discovery, and practical growth ideas.

28 - 29 September 2026
NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
TECHSPO Johannesburg is a two-day technology expo focused on Internet, mobile, adtech, martech, SaaS, product demos, business networking, and digital innovation.

29 September - 1 October 2026
University of Cape Town
Times Higher Education's World Academic Summit comes to Africa for the first time, hosted in Cape Town under the theme Knowledge, justice and futures: Universities in the age of intelligence.

12 - 16 October 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
African Energy Week is a major energy conference and exhibition covering upstream, midstream, downstream, renewables, energy services, policy, and dealmaking across Africa.

28 October - 1 November 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
FAME Week Africa is a creative-industry trade platform for film, television, animation, music, fashion, and entertainment technology, including MIP Africa, Muziki Africa, fashion forums, and short-film programming.

2 - 3 November 2026
Cape Town
An academic business, economics, and finance conference for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results, methods, and perspectives.

3 November 2026
Cape Town
ICHE is an academic conference on higher education policy, teaching and learning, student success, governance, internationalisation, and digital-age universities.

3 November 2026
Cape Town
ICLLL is a humanities conference focused on language studies, comparative literature, linguistics, translation, language education, and multilingual research.

3 November 2026
Cape Town
ICLS is an academic conference exploring how law, legal systems, constitutional frameworks, human rights, social justice, and legal reform interact with society.

3 November 2026
Cape Town
ICWERC is an academic conservation conference covering wildlife ecology, rehabilitation, biodiversity protection, anti-poaching strategy, and conservation policy.

3 - 6 November 2026
CTICC and DHL Stadium, Cape Town
One Young World Summit brings young leaders from around the world to Cape Town for keynote speeches, workshops, global networking, and an opening ceremony at DHL Stadium.

4 - 5 November 2026
Cape Town
An academic conference on data mining, big data, database systems, pattern discovery, spatial and temporal datasets, privacy-preserving analysis, and related research.

17 - 19 November 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
Africa Tech Festival is Africa's largest annual tech event, combining AfricaCom, AfricaTech, and FinovateAfrica tracks for telecoms, innovation, investment, and fintech communities.

Late 2026 date TBC
Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha
SAERA Education Research Conference is a national education research gathering hosted by SAERA and Nelson Mandela University, showcasing South African and African education research.

26 - 27 November 2026
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
Africa Early Stage Investor Summit is a major gathering for Africa-focused angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and ecosystem builders, co-created by ABAN and VC4A.

2 - 3 December 2026
CTICC, Cape Town
AfricArena Grand Summit is a year-end startup and investor summit showcasing Africa's high-potential startups to local and international investors after a continental pitch tour.

2026 date TBC
Cape Town or Johannesburg
ICPBS is an international academic conference covering psychology, behavioural science, mental health, cognitive science, and related research disciplines.
Expos and major event days
Sport, lifestyle, expo, and public event traffic where shared lifts keep arrival simple.

29 - 31 May 2026
CTICC 2, Cape Town
The Good Life Show is a food, wellness, sustainability, and conscious living expo connecting consumers, trade professionals, chefs, wellness experts, and innovative brands.

29 - 31 May 2026
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
The Cannabis Expo is a three-day marketplace for cannabis education, innovation, lifestyle, cultivation, finance, agriculture, and industry networking at Sandton Convention Centre.

7 August - 12 September 2026
Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, and Johannesburg
New Zealand's All Blacks tour South Africa in 2026 for provincial fixtures and a Springboks Test series, including confirmed South African Tests at Ellis Park, DHL Stadium, and FNB Stadium.

10 - 12 September 2026
Stellenbosch University
Maties Homecoming Weekend brings Stellenbosch University alumni back to campus for reunions, golf days, winemaker showcases, theatre, headline concerts, and campus-wide social events.

25 November - 13 December 2026
Nelson Mandela Bay, Gqeberha
The Lifesaving World Championships return to South Africa, bringing thousands of athletes, coaches, officials, and supporters to Nelson Mandela Bay for pool, ocean, beach, and IRB racing events.

2026 date TBA
Outdoor venue, South Africa
SA Camp Fest is a Volkswagen Audi Group car show and social weekend, drawing motoring enthusiasts into convoy-style road trips for vehicle displays, music, car culture, and community.

2026 date TBA
Sun City Superbowl, North West
Ziyakhala Mo Sun City is a major indoor music and culture celebration at the Sun City Superbowl, drawing regional visitors for a resort weekend of South African music and entertainment.
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21 March 2026
The Glen Country Club, Camps Bay
Corona Sunsets Festival Cape Town is an outdoor day-to-night music, art, wellness, and sustainability festival at The Glen, with beachside energy, international and local DJs, eco-activations, food gardens, and large Camps Bay crowd movement.

31 December 2025 - 2 January 2026
Kromrivier Farm, Riviersonderend
A cosmic New Year run through Riviersonderend. Still useful for anyone checking how CrabaRide handles festival lifts for this route.

3 - 5 October 2025
Cloof Wine Estate, Darling
The 20-year celebration edition brought big-stage energy back to Darling. The transport flow stays the same: verified rides in, verified rides out.

28 April - 4 May 2025
Tankwa Town, Tankwa Karoo
Out of the Blue carried burners into the Tankwa for another remote week of art, participation, and serious packing lists.