North West Premier Mme Thandi Modise has assured the arts industry that her administration does not want to neglect them. Premier Modise was responding to an allegation that the strategy currently being followed by the North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Mmabana Foundation is side lining and disadvantaging arts produces who are essentially the arts and culture industry.
The meeting held by Premier Modise and MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Tebogo Modise with writers, dramatists, film-makers, arts intellectuals, visual artists, arts managers and other practitioners in Mahikeng on Wednesday afternoon was a follow-up to complaints raised by arts producers to the Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela recently during her provincial road show.
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