Bathurst Ox Braai (Barbecue) Eastern Cape - South Africa Editorial Photo

For the previous 30 or so years the Bathurst Agricultural Show Grounds has played host on the 28th or 29th of December to the annual ox braai (barbecue). This calendar event attracts up to 10,000 visitors, mostly young folk in their twenties. Visitors pay a gate entrance and set up camp in the show grounds. The gates are locked at 18hr00 and unlocked at 06hr00 next morning (to avoid drunken driving). Forty five ox hindquarters are cooked at the braai and it is a very festive occasion with bands playing and so on. The event is a school fund raiser.