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Thami AkaMbongo and Sibongile Mngoma protesting inside the National Arts Council premises in Newtown, Johannesburg. Early this month the high court ordered protesters to leave the building.Image: ANTONIO MUCHAVE/SOWETAN
DISPUTE BETWEEN ARTISTS

Public protector aims to resolve artists’ dispute with government

The office of the public protector says it will mediate in the two-month-long dispute between artists, the National Arts Council (NAC) and the department of sport, arts and culture. The artists held a sit-in at the NAC’s offices for a…

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NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL

National Arts Festival court victory rejects NAC revisions

The National Arts Festival scored a major victory last week when the South Gauteng High Court dismissed attempts by the National Arts Council (NAC) to enforce unilateral changes to a contract which forms part of the Presidential Economic…

  • Talk of the Town Reporter
TALENT ON SHOW: The strings and brass musicians of the Keiskamma Music Academy who appeared at the music festival organised for the Clumber Church 150th anniversary celebrations last year
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Keiskamma Music Academy, Port Alfred branch

The Keiskamma Music Academy in Hamburg (along the coast towards East London) was formed in 2006 with the aim of uplifting the community through music education. Fourteen-years later many lives have been changed because the KMA programme…

  • Rob Knowles