CHRIS THURMAN: When ideas and words fail, there’s dance
At times only the eloquence of the body can fully express anger, pain or resistance to oppression
20 May 2022 - 05:00
Absolutely nobody in the arts and culture sector supported the construction of a 120m flagpole to display an outsize SA flag at a cost of R22m. Still, that didn’t seem to matter to Nathi Mthethwa, indisputably the worst minister to hold this portfolio in the postapartheid era (and a contender for most inept cabinet member altogether, which is saying something).
This wasteful vanity project, this exercise in crass nationalism, is an insult to all of us — the latest in a litany of devastating blows to the arts industry struck by the very person who is tasked with protecting and promoting it. ..
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