Buying a ticket is as simple as clicking the large ‘buy tickets now’ button at the top of the page when the ticket sales open.

You can purchase up to two tickets; however, it will make life easier if you insert the second person’s details at the point of purchase and not later on. Please be prepared with the details of the second ticket holder, as you will need to insert these before concluding your purchase.

The details you’ll need on hand during your ticket purchase are:
Name & surname, email address, mobile number, ID/passport number and Nationality.  Emergency contact details of someone NOT AT AfrikaBurn and somebody AT AfrikaBurn. This year we are including medical questions, asking for details about chronic medication, pre-existing medical conditions, allergies, and your medical aid/medical insurance details. 

PLEASE NOTE: the ID/passport number you enter on Quicket must match the ID/passport number you present at the Gate. No exceptions.

As AfrikaBurn tickets can sell out quite quickly, we encourage you to gather all the information you need and register with Quicket well before the ticket sales open.

Although we previously required a Burner Bio profile to purchase a ticket or attend the event, due to reduced capacity and resources, Burner Bios are not compulsory to purchase AfrikaBurn event tickets. 

You will also be expected to run through some short acculturation questions before being able to purchase your tickets to make sure you know you’re not going to a music festival.

You will also need to register an account with Quicket to be able to purchase a ticket to AfrikaBurn.

The higher-priced ticket tiers include a contribution over and above the base access price. That extra money helps support the event, year-round activities and makes lower-priced and means-based tickets possible.

If the donation-based tiers are outside your budget, use the Ground Up General when it is available, or read the current Access, Subsidised and Anathi information at https://tickets.afrikaburn.org/.

If you find that the details on your ticket do not match the information on the ticket holder’s ID/passport, or your circumstances have changed (e.g. your partner is no longer coming to the Burn, but your daughter is), then you can edit the details on the ticket.

Please note: You have ONE CHANCE to edit the details on this ticket, so make sure you insert the correct information, as you can’t go back and change it again.

> Log into Quicket, and click on your username (at upper right)
> Locate and click on ‘My Tickets’
> Find your AfrikaBurn ticket
> Alongside Options, click ‘Edit Details’
> Change the details of the ticket, and click ‘Save’

Please ensure that the information on the ticket matches the details of the person presenting that ticket at the event Gate.

Transferring a ticket can happen any time until the last day the gates to the Burn are open. The transfer function should only be used if you transfer the tickets into somebody’s name who you know and trust. Here’s how:

> Log into Quicket, and click ‘My Tickets’ under your username in the upper right-hand corner.
> Find your AfrikaBurn ticket
> Alongside ‘Options’, click ‘Transfer Tickets’
> Use the option to transfer the ticket to a new recipient

Once you transfer your ticket to the new owner, the barcode will be cancelled, and a new barcode will be issued to the new recipient. Please ensure you enter the correct email address (both times) as the transfer cannot be reversed.
If you’re purchasing a ticket from a friend, let them know to transfer the ticket to you, as above.

The exchange of money needs to happen privately. If you are concerned about the safe transfer of funds, please instead use the Private Resale function on Quicket. This will ensure the exchange of money is secure.

Quicket has enabled a resale system to support our community in selling or buying tickets outside of the main sales. Their system is tied directly into the usual event page, and the system works with the original barcoded ticket being resold, cancelling the original barcode and generating a new barcode for the ticket’s new recipient. That way, no two people can check in with the same ticket, limiting any nasty surprises at the event gate.

If you want to resell your ticket, please check out this help document.

Private resales will open when the first batch of tickets goes on sale, and public resales will open after the General Sale sells out. Has the event sold out, and you are looking for a resale ticket? Head over to the link at the top of the ticket site and click on the tickets section to find what’s available for resale.

If you want to sell your ticket, please use Quicket rather than trying to freestyle the sale through a stranger on social media. If you don’t have a buyer, use the public resale function. If you have a buyer but don’t know them well, use Quicket’s private resale so the money and the newly issued barcode are handled securely.

If you’re selling to someone you know and trust, you can transfer the ticket to their Quicket account and handle the money privately. Either way: sell at face value, don’t feed the scalpers, and help keep another Burner from getting scammed.

Quicket supports both public and private resale. Public resale is for a ticket holder who doesn’t already have a buyer; private resale is for a ticket holder who has found someone but wants Quicket to handle the secure exchange.

For buying, use the resale options on the official AfrikaBurn Quicket event page. For selling, Quicket’s guide is here: https://help.quicket.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-to-resell-your-ticket-public-or-private-option

Please keep stranger-to-stranger sales inside Quicket.

With the limited number of tickets available for the event, AfrikaBurn limits the number of tickets you can purchase to two per purchaser. This ensures that everyone has an equal opportunity to access a ticket and that as many people register, answer the acculturation questions and provide accurate details (as they will be used in the AfrikaBurn Venue Operations Centre in case of an emergency).

Making group bookings or booking advance tickets for AfrikaBurn is impossible. General Sales Tickets are limited to 2 per person. This also applies to large groups coming from outside South Africa.

It’s important to note that no companies or individuals should promote or sell package tours to the event or set up & run camps for others. AfrikaBurn is unlike commercial events, where a catered or packaged experience is often available.

AfrikaBurn is informed by a set of 11 Principles, including concepts like Participation, Radical Self-Reliance and Decommodification. This means that everyone who comes to the event is expected to buy their own tickets, erect their own camps and contribute in some way. It’s not a space where ‘somebody else’ does the work: the community creates the event. In line with that, no paid labour is permitted on-site at the event to set up camps, clean, cook, etc.

For info on how our event works, and also as a way to understand how camping works or to know how the many other aspects of AfrikaBurn are different, take a look at our Quaggapedia

To find a safe midpoint between a large event and a safe environment for our community, we limit the number of people who can attend AfrikaBurn. 

It is also vital that AfrikaBurn grows the event gradually to maintain the ethos and culture of the event and ensure healthy ratios of first-timers and long-standing contributors so that there’s more opportunity for the Each One Teach One principle to flourish.

To make an event of this size happen, there are many costs to cover – many of which are ‘invisible’ in the sense of not being immediately apparent. Among these are the cost of site upkeep and development, insurance, emergency services including an air ambulance, art funding, security, printed programs, Survival Guides, toilet construction (and rental), signage, transport, street lighting, Access Grants, equipment hire & purchase, site office, tents and many, many more. For a helpful price comparison, consider that camping at a national park costs around R300 per person per night, for which you get toilets and a piece of ground to pitch your tent.

Something you will not need this year.

The E-Toll is designed to encourage ride-sharing and reduce the number of cars on our event site, and the R355 – the tyre-eating and treacherous road to AfrikaBurn. But as previously mentioned, we have suspended them for this year.

If you get this error message while purchasing a Direct Distribution Ticket, it could be because the purchase process was interrupted. If this is the problem, wait 15 minutes and try again – this is in place to prevent fraud.

If you still don’t come right, please call Quicket at 021 424 9308, and they will happily help you.

The gate crew will check your photo ID against your ticket details in the system. ID/passport or driver’s licences (A clear copy is OK) will be accepted, so please ensure that your ID/passport number is correct on the ticket of every person travelling with you.

For the Best Gate Experience™ – come prepared! Print your ticket out, or make sure your smart device has enough battery! The gate can be pretty unforgiving, especially when there are hundreds of other, better-prepared folk clamouring to get in. Again, make sure the details on your ID/passport match the details on your ticket. If they don’t, please check the edit details & transfer ticket information above.

If you intend to redeem a Kids Ticket at the gate, please complete the additional process, get the paperwork and bring it with you.

Kids and minor tickets are issued via an application process from 1 March 2027 to 31 March 2027. 

Please check back for further information closer to the time.

Please note: Kids 14-17 need to buy a Minor Ticket.

Access Tickets are a new tier, designed to make the event more accessible to people who earn less than R22 000 a month.
If this describes you, then you’re welcome to apply – please note that the number of Access Tickets is limited. 

Subsidised Tickets are designed to make our event accessible to those who can’t afford the full ticket price but can afford a reduced-price ticket, subsidised by the community. Generally, this includes students, single parents, folk on a low income, and others who can’t afford to attend on their own steam but should be able to participate.

If you match that description, you can submit a motivation for a Subsidised Ticket.

We would love everyone to have an opportunity to participate in AfrikaBurn.

Applications for Anathi tickets and grants open 14 October. More information on this process can be found under ‘Anathi Tickets’ in the Tickets section of the homepage.

Suppose you are unable to purchase your AfrikaBurn ticket online … in that case, at the time of the ticket sale for the ticket you want to buy, you can head on over to the AfrikaBurn HQ – 8 Junction Road, Salt River, Cape Town, and our ticketing team at the office will be able to assist you with the purchase process.

Please note that these tickets form part of the online sales pot, so when/if the tickets sell out online, there will no longer be tickets available at the AfrikaBurn HQ either.

You can pay for these tickets using cash or card.

If you are struggling with 3D secure and your payment fails, you’ll be returned to the checkout page.

For South Africans: To avoid issues, from here, select the ‘Bank Transfer’ payment option, and click the ‘Complete Purchase’ button at the bottom of the page. Your ticket/s will be booked for 72 hours, and alternative payment instructions will be sent to you.

For Internationals: We would suggest trying the payment again, and if you continue to have trouble paying by card, it might be best to contact your bank to ensure everything is fine on their side and that no fraud detection process has kicked in. Just let them know you’re having trouble getting through the 3D Secure authorisation system for an online transaction and that you’re trying to make an online transaction in South African Rands on a South African website.

You need to take advantage of the Quicket resale program. 

We do not recommend you purchase a ticket privately from someone you don’t know and trust. Scalping has become a problem for events worldwide, and the number of people who arrive at the AfrikaBurn gate with fake tickets is heartbreaking.

If you find someone (you don’t know or trust) selling their ticket privately, request that they load their ticket onto the Quicket resale platform as a private resale and complete the exchange and transaction from there. They are likely trying to scam you if they are not keen on this option. Alternatively, check the public resale by heading over to the event page on Quicket to see if any tickets have been put up for resale. Check back daily if you aren’t successful the first time – trust us, it works.

Please do not buy tickets off Viagogo or Gameday and the like. They are always a scam. Trust us on this one!

No. Everyone that comes to AfrikaBurn makes AfrikaBurn happen – no one gets a freebie (except children and pensioners).

Afraid not – all participants, including accredited media representatives, must buy a ticket. Check the media page on the AfrikaBurn website for more information.

You’ll need the following details:

> Name & surname
> ID/passport number (NB: this ID/passport number must match the ID/passport number presented at the Gate)
> Email address
> Mobile phone number
> On and off-site emergency contact details
> Tankwa Town address (if known) or the Theme Camp/Creative Project you are involved with.
> Medical information: chronic medicine, pre-existing medical conditions, allergies and medical aid number/medical insurance number.

Unfortunately, we don’t offer refunds on tickets. However, we can give you a quick and easy way to resell your tickets using the resale system on Quicket. Their resale system enables you to put your tickets back up for sale to people looking for them.

If you have changed your mind, please put your tickets up for resale on Quicket as soon as possible – if you leave it too late your tickets might not be resold in time!

Check here for more details, and contact Quicket if you are having any issues with re-sales