AfrikaBurn Event Disclaimer

Event Disclaimer & Indemnity:

Attendance at AfrikaBurn is entirely at your own risk. By attending AfrikaBurn, you hereby confirm that you fully understand the extreme nature and conditions of the event and voluntarily assume all risks and responsibility for yourself and your personal property, any minors or wards accompanying you to AfrikaBurn on a ticket purchased by you on their behalf and their personal property, including but not limited to:

1. damage, loss or destruction of personal property;
2. damage, loss or destruction of property not owned by you;
3. driving, flying to, or entering Quaggafontein and Vaalfontein for any reason whatsoever or using the airspace associated with the event;
4. medical and emergency care
5. injury, serious injury or death; 

Mutant Vehicles, Artworks, Theme Camps and performances are not owned or operated by AfrikaBurn. Interacting with any of these is done at your entire election and you accordingly assume any and all risk of injury, death or loss associated with or arising from their operation or occurrence. 

In the case of a medical emergency, you agree to:

1. medical assistance by AfrikaBurn medical personnel
2. comply with any and all directions given by AfrikaBurn medical personnel, which may include a direction to leave the event site in order to seek further medical care;
3. indemnify AfrikaBurn, the Event Organisers, and all AfrikaBurn medical personnel against, damage or loss to your person or your property, however caused, and you release AfrikaBurn from any claim arising from this risk and against any and all claims by third parties for injury, damage or loss sustained relating to your participation

By attending AfrikaBurn, you acknowledge and agree that the Event Organiser accepts no responsibility for, and you indemnify them against damage or loss to your person, and/or your property, however so caused, and you release AfrikaBurn from any claim arising from this risk and against any and all claims by third parties for injury, damage or loss sustained relating to your participation at AfrikaBurn.

AfrikaBurn team members/event officials will identify and address behavioural or community issues which negatively affect participant safety and well-being. Participant accountability processes, including the investigation and sanctioning of unsafe participant behaviour, are informed by the AfrikaBurn 11 principles, enthusiastic consent standards, and health and safety guidelines. 

Your ticket is a revocable license to attend AfrikaBurn. Accordingly, the Event Organiser reserves the absolute right, at its sole election and discretion, to revoke your licence to attend, at any time, for any amount of time, and for any reason.

Event Requirements:

You hereby confirm that you fully understand the extreme conditions of the event and are accordingly required to bring enough food, water, shelter, any chronic or prescription medication you need, and which you commit to continue taking whilst onsite at AfrikaBurn and first aid supplies to survive for a week in a harsh environment. 

You agree to read and abide by all the rules contained in the www.afrikaburn.org/eventrules, as well as all valid instructions from all event officials, AfrikaBurn team members and professional service providers, and to follow national and local laws. 

You understand and agree that this event is a private event held on private property where your use or creation of any media or intellectual property is subject to the ownership use rights of AfrikaBurn, or other attendees, and that any public, promotional or commercial use of images, audio or video taken at the event, including media of people, objects and artworks, and their use in any form of media, including (but not limited to) print, video, digital and social media, is prohibited without the prior written consent of AfrikaBurn. 

You appoint AfrikaBurn as your representative to take actions necessary to protect your intellectual property or privacy rights, recognising that AfrikaBurn has no obligation to take any action whatsoever.

All vehicles, including trucks, trailers, caravans and recreational vehicles entering and exiting AfrikaBurn are subject to a search by the AfrikaBurn Gate team. You consent to reasonable examinations and searches by authorised AfrikaBurn event team members to ensure your compliance with laws and event rules, and acknowledge that illegal substances are not permitted at the event premises. 

Commercial vending is prohibited, as are pets and other animals, drones or UAVs, weapons, firearms, flares, fireworks, rockets and other explosives. 

The AfrikaBurn event site, ‘Tankwa Town’, is clearly demarcated. You are not permitted beyond the demarcated areas, and without prior consent from the Venue Operations Centre, you are trespassing. No access is allowed to any runway or aviation area at the event.

This is a Leave No Trace, pack it in, pack it out event. You are required to keep Tankwa Town clean for the duration of the event, and are expected to contribute at least two hours of general clean-up in addition to your own camp before departure.

Communicable Illness Policy

By purchasing a ticket, you agree to follow all health policies intended to prevent, identify, treat or contain the spread of communicable illnesses at the AfrikaBurn HQ or event site. You accept that this is a mandatory legal requirement for all event organisers in South Africa. This includes COVID-19 protocols before, during and after AfrikaBurn. 

You agree not to attend AfrikaBurn if you have been exposed to a communicable illness- such as gastroenteritis, influenza, chickenpox, m-pox and COVID-19 etc, and/or if you show any signs or symptoms of any communicable illness, within the preceding 10 days of your arrival to the AfrikaBurn site.

You agree to follow all screening and testing requirements, including COVID-19 protocols, as stipulated by AfrikaBurn and/or the South African government, prior to and at AfrikaBurn. You accept that you will not be admitted to the AfrikaBurn site if you are showing any signs of an acute illness, including COVID-19, or other symptoms of a communicable illness.

Updated information on requirements can be found on: www.afrikaburn.com/eventrules

You agree to keep yourself and your campmates up to date with regard to all public health emergencies, travel illness warnings or alerts and accept responsibility for the implications, impacts and your required actions.

AfrikaBurn will not be held liable for any individual that contracts a communicable illness such as COVID-19 at AfrikaBurn, nor the consequences that follow.