And the winner is ... take a look at who received lifetime awards
Lindiwe Mabuza and Dorothy Masuka are among the five winners of the Arts & Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Arts & Culture Trust’s five Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented at a celebration on November 17. The winners are: • Arts Advocacy (The award is sponsored by Creative Feel magazine) Her Excellency Lindiwe Mabuza was born in 1939 to humble beginnings but went on to become internationally renowned for her work as a fierce advocate for the anti-apartheid movement and the voice of black women through her collaborative poetry anthologies, Malibongwe (1980) and One Never Knows: An Anthology of Black South African Women Writers in Exile (1989). She is a recipient of the Order of Ikhamanga in silver for her work in arts and culture. • Dance (Award sponsored by JT International) Adele Blank is a classical dancer trained in the Cecchetti method and has contributed significantly to the industry, helping to create the Johannesburg City Ballet (which later became Pact Ballet Company). Blank was choreographer for the 8+One Company, which was one of the first companies to feature a black...
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