The Color Run, brought to you by Capitec Bank, is back in Nelspruit to share the joy of the Happiest 5K on the Planet with the Lowveld.

Are you ready to have the time of your life, Nelspruit? The Color Run is less about running your best time, and more about embracing happiness – in every colour under the sun. The Color Run is a five-kilometre, un-timed event in which thousands of participants, or “Color Runners”, are doused from head to toe in different colours at each kilometre.

There are only two rules: Wear white at the start line; and finish plastered in colour.

Mark your diaries:
When: July 30
Where: Mbombela Stadium
Time: 09:00 for 10:00
Event Hashtag: #TheHappiest5k and #CapitecColorRun

“The Color Run is about being healthy, being happy, self-expression, and giving back,” says national event organiser at The Color Run, Trevor Latimer.

With headline sponsor, Capitec Bank on board once again, Nelspruit is set to enjoy the 2016 Rainbow Tour.
“Capitec Bank, like The Color Run, believes in health, happiness, individuality, giving back, living life in technicolour and having fun, while caring about the community,” says Charl Nel, head of communications at Capitec Bank.

Capitec Bank and The Color Run have partnered with Adopt-a-School Foundation.
R10.00 from every ticket sold is being donated to Emjindini High School in Barberton.

Charity and school fundraising is a big part of The Color Run. Register your own school or charity on the Fun Raiser programme and raise money for every ticket sold under your unique Fun Raiser code. To give back, contact The Color Run on hello@thecolorrun.co.za.

Color Runners will each receive a race pack with includes the official Rainbow Tour edition T-Shirt, headband, bag of colour powder, temporary tattoos, and a race number.

Additionally, every Color Runner will receive a R200 voucher from Superbalist.com, to be redeemed against a minimum spend of R650 through the Superbalist app.
Tickets are available online from The Color Run website and Facebook. Individual ticket prices are R250 and R225 for groups of 4 or more. Manual entry points are listed on www.thecolorrun.co.za

About The Color Run
The Color Run is a feel-good, happy, colourful event. “Color Runners” of all shapes and sizes happily go from wearing pristine white clothing, to being covered in prismatic colour. At each kilometre mark, a different colour of powder fills the air and covers the participants, creating an ever-increasing spectrum of colour and beauty. At the finish line, the colour festival kicks off and the air is filled with millions of vivid colour combinations as participants get in on the colour throwing fun as well.

About Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank (JSE: CPI) is South Africa’s fastest growing full service retail bank. With 6.2 million active clients, R11.6 billion in equity and R53.9 billion in assets as of February 2015, Capitec Bank offers affordable, simplified and transparent banking with personalised service. Using innovative technology to drive down costs, increased accessibility and simplified, transparent client interactions, Capitec Bank's Global One facility offers a range of transacting, saving and credit options accessed in real-time using paperless processes and the country’s first in-branch biometric client identification system. Capitec Bank was recently named South Africa’s best service and *best value bank in the South African Consumer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi), South Africa’s best priced bank in the Solidarity Report and the best customer service bank in the Ask Afrika Orange Index awards.

Press release: Headlines / Kate Thompson