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His department can enhance the country’s soft power and create jobs - but he’ll have to turn its reputation around and run its operations better.
His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The celebrated South African architect Sumayya Vally is the artistic director of the exhibition.
A major exhibition in Cape Town revealed the unique brew that characterises the work of this politically charged feminist artist.
Problems limiting the growth of the sector aren’t self-inflicted. They’re firmly rooted in the country’s development agenda.
The plight of live music mapped in the new survey should concern anyone looking to the return of the country’s diverse live music scene.
Herri steps into a lacuna in the South African arts and culture publishing landscape and deploys design to add richness to its critical texts.
There aren’t a lot of studies on South Africa’s cultural economy. A new one finds a cluster of creative firms in Cape Town with high levels of innovation.
Fake copies of works by legendary black South African modernist artists are flooding the market - and one university is deploying a range of scientific tests to expose them.
Deeply influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, artist David Koloane, who died on 30 June 2019, believed that artists have a right to define their own work.
South Africa’s government reneged on opportunities to cement artist Gerard Sekoto’s legacy.
The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
Creative hubs and clusters mushroomed in the Asia-Pacific region. South Africa must follow suit or miss the opportunity to grow its creative economy.
Top contributors
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University
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Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
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Nancy and Robert J. Carney Postdoctoral Associate in Art History, Rice University
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Honorary Professor of Practice, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Curator Collections, lecturer, PhD candidate, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Research Manager, South African Cultural Observatory
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Professor of Economics and Researcher at the South African Cultural Observatory, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Art History and Deputy Head of the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
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Invited User
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Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Management, School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer and Head of Cultural Policy and Management, School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Associate research scientist, Nelson Mandela University
