‘Yes, Earth Hour may be a New Year’s Eve in reverse; the global celebration shrouded in darkness devoid of fireworks and live music’
Revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the skyscrapers of Dubai and New York’s Times Square to say goodbye to 2014.
If President Jacob Zuma was hoping to leave the booing at Nelson Mandela’s memorial behind him with the rest of 2013, he is in for a rude surprise.
Dubai’s six-minute pyrotechnic display, involving more than half a million fireworks, has broken the world record for largest display yet.
Extravagant fireworks displays and massive outdoor festivities marked the start of 2014 across the world.
From Cape Town’s Grand Parade party to fireworks in Sydney and a long line-up of kwaito acts in Jo’burg, here’s how major cities plan to welcome 2014.
Throwing furniture out the windows of high-rise buildings in Hillbrow came fourth in a poll on strange New Year’s customs from around the world.
The earliest records of New Year festivities go back to the Babylonians about 4000 years ago.
Sydney’s skyline has erupted with fireworks as revellers cheered in the new year from the city’s harbour in the world’s first major 2013 celebration.
Cocooned in an armoured Nyala, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> brings in the New Year in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.
Fridges might fly and beds may fall from the sky as residents in Hillbrow see in the New Year by throwing broken furniture onto the streets below.
Multicoloured starbusts and gigantic sparklers lit the midnight sky over Sydney Harbour in a dazzling fireworks to ring in the new year.
Hillbrow, notorious for its New Year’s mayhem, was more subdued this year after a downpour of rain. Police blockaded Hillbrow in attempt to make c