The diversity of projects funded by the Arts & Culture Trust ranges from urban renewal to art therapy, multi-media and book illustration. We look at five successful concepts Ntuthuko Maphumulo In the past few years the Visual Arts and Crafts Academy (Vaca) has played an important role in helping young learners cope with their traumatic […]
Nedbank, in partnership with the Arts & Culture Trust and the Mail & Guardian, is proud to be associated with the 2001 Arts & Culture Trust Awards. As the initiator in the Arts & Culture Trust’s creation, Nedbank continues to play a fundamental role in supporting the trust and its various projects. >From a business […]
The 1981 Springbok tour divided New Zealanders. Twenty years later they are still licking their wounds, reports Grant Shimmin The man in Hamilton in 1999 should have given me a clue, but I suppose I glossed over it. After all, we had a cricket tour to cover. Thinking back, though, he must have been planning […]
Mail& Guardian reporter The Joubert Park Public Art Project (JPP) is hosting a major multi-disciplinary exhibition and series of events at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Joubert Park, which will run from October 13 until the end of December. With the focus on “public art” the JPP aims to address and engage the conditions, changes […]
Barbara Ludman Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Viking) Any book that will keep children reading after they’ve devoured all four Harry Potter books is worth a try, but the hero of this one is perhaps not the kind of fellow you want as a role model for your children. Artemis Fowl, the scion of a […]
Byron Kennedy in London Just two of the five major South African companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will be included in the FTSE 4good indices when they go live at the end of July. South African Breweries (SAB) and Dimension Data both meet the required standards and are poised to join one of […]
Jwara Mali Flames and Flowers by James Matthews (Realities) The poem is a story as well. In Flames and Flowers, James Matthews seems to take us through the story of his life. There is a narrative element, however slight, in the treatment of this poet’s themes: “Dorfman/ I have eaten the bread of your pain/ […]
The Arts & Culture Trust Awards are handed out in eight categories 1. Arts Administrator of the Year Open to any person in cultural organisations, government, the business community or activities concerned primarily with administration, policy, funding or management of the arts and culture or any aspect of it. Criteria to consider: l The skills, […]
A wealthy European businessman has invested millions in a unique conservation project Fiona Macleod Paul van Vlissengen is one of the richest men in the world, but when he comes out to South Africa where he spends half his time at the moment he lives in a tent. Even for a Hollander, the winter winds […]
For how much longer will government indifference, petty political infighting and bureaucratic incompetence continue to blight millions of South African adults who cannot read or write their own names? And how does one calculate the personal and national costs of the country’s shockingly widespread illiteracy more than a third of adults? Minister of Education Kader […]