The Cape Town International Jazz festival is an annual music festival held in cape metropolis, South Africa. The first one changed into held in 2000 to 2005 and is acknowledged as the fourth biggest jazz competition in the international and the largest jazz festival at the African continent. The festival used to be referred to as the cape metropolis north sea jazz competition because of its association with the north sea competition within the netherlands.

Cape city worldwide jazz competition commenced in 2000 as part of the north sea jazz festival. this was part of an association that came about as a result of the partnership between especially Africa (a South African events control enterprise) and mojo concerts BV, the founders of the dutch north sea jazz festival. It changed into the primary time that a jazz competition with 4 simultaneous legs took place in southern Africa. The festival came about every 12 months until 2005 because of the north sea jazz competition. Thereafter, from 2005 onwards, the festival changed into renamed to the cape city global jazz competition due to the partnership fails. The festival has grown since it first started out in 2000, and as an end result, attendance has also grown from 14,000 live performance goers in 2000 to 34,000 live performance goers in 2013. From its inception to 2003, the occasion became held at the coolest desire centre but it outgrew the venue, so from 2004, the pageant has considering been hosted at the cape metropolis global convention centre.

From 2000 to 2005, the competition changed into marketed because the north sea jazz pageant as part of a settlement between esp Afrika and mojo live shows. The plan changed into for mojo live shows to provide the important infrastructure for an international-magnificence African jazz festival, in order soon as that occurred, mojo concerts took esp Afrika to the courtroom. They filed for esp Afrika’s liquidation to consolidate a €500,000 debt that had been incurred over the five-year settlement. On 26 April 2005, a settlement changed into reached out of doors of court docket wherein the debt changed into consolidated and esp Afrika became able to retain with the festival, now beneath the call of the cape town international jazz pageant.