Friday 27 April 2012

AND THE AWARD GOES TO...


With the SAMA season upon us, all roads lead to the city of the sun this long weekend for the event of all events, the 18th annual MTN South African Music Awards. We await with anxiety and curiosity to see who is the MUSO AMONGST MUSOS.
The preparations for this prestigious yellow carpet event have reached its final stages. Organising an event of such high magnitude has its fair share of challenges that can make the event to be a complete failure. Last year’s event was held at Monte Casino in Johannesburg, it wasn't very impressive and was ranked as being poorly organised, boring and disappointing.

Members of the public and the artists voiced out their complaints on social networks such as the SAMAs Facebook page and Twitter after artists’ accommodation arrangements were mixed up, the sound system was low and the tickets were not available on time, the delegates had to stand in a queue to pick up their tickets despite the confirmation e-mails the organisers had sent assuring them that tickets will be available to them at a particular time, but that was not the case. About 20 people were robbed of their wallets, cameras and cellphones due to poor security measures which were not in order, LINK.

With lessons learnt from last year and the organisers wanting to restore their name, this year’s event is expected to be bigger and better than before.
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16 comments:

  1. Inno Dlamini27 April 2012 at 08:18

    although its evident that you keep abreast with what is happening around you,your knowledge about the event and how you put it must be appluaded.

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  2. Unknown27 April 2012 at 10:30

    Indeed SAMA organisers this year are under pressure. If they fail to satisfy attendees they must change their organizing agency and host SAMA's outside JHB and Sun-city maybe things will work out

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    1. STRAIGHT TALK WITH LORRAINE1 May 2012 at 22:54

      I think the SAMAs should just stat in Sun City,its the only venue in my opinion big enough to accommodate a large number of people for this event. Monte Casino was just a waste of time.

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  3. clive media guru27 April 2012 at 15:22

    im a bit worried on how they are building thier media relations campign hpe it will not be terrrible just like last year

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    1. STRAIGHT TALK WITH LORRAINE1 May 2012 at 22:56

      I think they did a prtty good job this year hey clive.

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  4. KeaRams2 May 2012 at 05:55

    They did a wonderful job. A hundred times better than last years' awards. This just shows the organisers took into consideration what they didi wrong last year and how they can improve it to avoid the problems they encountered last year, so TWO THUMBS UP FOR THEM.

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  5. Thee Workplace2 May 2012 at 05:56

    What I want to know though, is who was the last year's organiser/s? Has it always been the same people or do they change every year because they really did a good job on creating a bad publicity for the SAMas.

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  6. Unknown2 May 2012 at 06:01

    The SAMA's this year were very imprtessive wouldntyou agree?

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  7. Unknown2 May 2012 at 06:01

    I have to say well done to the organises they really did a good job. I am already looking forward to next years sama hopefully they do much better.

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  8. Unknown2 May 2012 at 06:02

    This goes to show how important is IMC in an organisation because without the reponse from the public they would have done the same mistakes they did the year before.

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  9. Nkhensani Makhuyane2 May 2012 at 07:42

    the event was well planned, stage setting and masters of ceremonies as well as projections and perfomances and big up to Zahara for collecting so m any awards.

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  10. Pebetse2 May 2012 at 12:13

    i liked the opening( the singing of the quest presenters) it was so very differrent from previous SAMA... It proved to me that organisations adapt or perrish...

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  11. Anonymous3 May 2012 at 05:08

    Well i already watched the SAMA,s i must say they were terrific and well planned. The stage is the best when compared to the previous one's but still there is something missing in this events.

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  12. Unknown3 May 2012 at 14:32

    well its really a big challenge for the SAMA organiosers to up their game this time around and make sure that they dont repeat but learn from the last years SAMA mistakes which were a kind of disaster.if they dont they are also embarrasing their sponsors brand names and stand a good chance of loosing the sponsors

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  13. Refi M4 May 2012 at 05:47

    Such events come with a lot of challenges but I really hope that this time around they will make a change and a very good one.

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