I was at the Coca-Cola Colab Massive Mix at Supersport Park on Saturday March 18, and the organisation of drinks and food was shocking.
I waited in a queue for two hours and when I got to the front of the queue, the organisers closed it because "they'd run out of stock".
I was also at Supersport park from 07:00, in the heat, and had nothing to drink from about 11:30 until 16:30. There was no way to buy cooldrink inside the park, and I had to get people outside of the stadium to buy me water and coke and bring it in because I was dehydrating.
We also could not get coke or beer from any stand or vat in the stadium. If we wanted it, we had to buy the whole vat of beer or coke!
The Supersport Park security told me that their facilities could only cope with
18 000 people, not 45 000, and the Lodge security eventually had to open taps so that we could get water from hose pipes and fire hydrants. I had 15 people in my group, and all of us were unable to get fluids or food into our systems.
The toilet queues were just as long as the cooldrink queues, and the wait was unbearable. Eventually, people used trees as toilets because of the poor facilities.
This could all have been avoided if there were more than six drinks stands and three food stands.
Surely someone could have allowed passes for us to be able to get out of the stadium to buy water and coke to stay hydrated?
If I knew this was going to be the situation, I would not have gone to the concert on Saturday, and rather stayed at home.
Michael de Bruin,
Johannesburg
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