Mr President, fire the dead wood that is ‘incompetent, aloof, out-of-touch’ Mthethwa
The almost seven years the minister has been in his position betrays the ANC’s attitude to the arts
25 January 2021 - 19:47
I am incredibly fortunate to be an arts columnist — to write, each week, about a tiny sliver of what artists in SA and around the world are doing, making, thinking, dreaming and creating. In the midst of pandemics and poverty and warfare there are, at any given moment, millions of people doing art: from solitary painters in makeshift studios to collaborative sea-shanty remixes on TikTok. ..
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