PICS: Hundreds attend Chinese new year festivities in Pretoria
(World News South Africa)

Pretoria - Hundreds of guests, include cabinet ministers, senior government officials, academics, political activists, and schoolchildren streamed into the Chinese embassy in Pretoria on Saturday where the red carpet was rolled out for festivities marking the Chinese new year, also known as the spring festival. Guests were wowed by numerous Chinese cultural kung fu performances, the famous Sichuan opera, aerobatics, Chinese calligraphy, and music. Several guests also won gifts in the writing competitions and ticket raffles...