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Sona 2026 leaves the creative sector behind
South Africa’s creative sector went into the State of the Nation address with a clear demand: recognition, reform and rescue. What it received was silence. Just days before…
Photographing past and present newsmakers
As I enter the exhibition titled Names in Uphill Letters — A historiography of the newsmakers who tread(ed) South Africa’s soil, at the Workers Museum in Newtown, I encounter a…
Officials implicated in arts council mismanagement will be brought to book — Mthethwa
The National Arts Council vows that every cent from the sector’s Covid-19-relief programme will be disbursed to artists, after auditors uncover maladministration
National Arts Council surplus policy ‘breaks Act’
A funding policy loophole seems to be encouraging feeding at the trough at the NAC
Review: ‘The Mother of All Eating’ suffers an unworthy restaging
The Market Theatre’s latest incarnation of Zakes Mda’s play is found sorely wanting
Musical drama ‘Hlakanyana’ offers biting social comment
The theatre piece draws on folklore and an Afrofuturist world to interrogate social ills
Paul Mashatile: Big promises, now what?
Recent comments by Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile promise a shake-up of the institutions that are life-and-death for artists.
Writers blocked: Programme scrapped after funding is withdrawn
With only two weeks until the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, part of its iconic sister programme has been gagged, writes Thalia Randall.
New CEO for National Arts Council
A new CEO for the National Arts Council of SA, Annabell Lebethe, has been appointed, the council said on Monday.
Innovative platforms for local literature
Allan Kolski Horwitz explains independently minded publishing collective Botsotso, while Darryl Accone applauds Colleen Higgs’s award-winning work.