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‘Remorseful’ Mthethwa apologises to arts community after calls to step down
Theatre practitioners started an online petition to have him removed after the arts and culture minister claimed that SA’s theatre was “alive and well”.
Lindiwe Ndlovu died at her home on Monday just a week after celebrating her 45th birthday.
The former Bafana Bafana defender’s funeral took place in Gugulethu, Cape Town, following his death in November in a car accident on the N2 freeway near Mtunzini.
The interim board has been brought together through a consultative process that involved the Department of Sport, the Members Council of CSA and the SA Cricketers Association.
This followed a series of meetings between Mthethwa and crisis-hit CSA to try and resolve issues at the embattled organisation.
The group has asked the president for a meeting and for its demands "not to be relegated to the Minister in the DSAC with whom we have already exhausted all avenues of engagement".
The two-time Olympic champion lost an appeal against the restriction of testosterone in female athletes.
The BLM movement has put a spotlight on the way societies treat people of colour around the world and in South Africa the debate has centred on sport.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Nathi Mthethwa said Kaunda Ntunja's death had left an indomitable void which would be hard to replace.
Safa has appointed Dr Thulani Ngwenya and Mlungisi Ncame as compliance officers to oversee the entire process as prescribed by the correspondence from Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa.
The minister on Monday briefed the media about his department’s COVID-19 R150 million sector relief fund.
The veteran actress wrote an open letter directed to the Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa on Monday.
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has received a six-page open letter penned by actress Vatiswa Ndara highlighting what she called an already rotten system used by production companies in the acting industry.
Ndara wrote a letter to the Arts and Culture Ministry, detailing some of her grievances about pay in the SA acting industry.
Vatiswa Ndara bemoaned the unfair and exploitative practices, which she said were rife in the acting industry.
This week, whistleblower Dhanajaya Naidoo claimed that Mthethwa - who was then police minister - benefitted from the purchase of a luxury SUV.
Whistleblower Colonel Dhanajaya Naidoo made the allegation at the state capture commission where he further claimed that then Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa benefitted from the purchase of a luxury SUV that was paid for out of the slush fund.
South Africa, along with seven other nations including Argentina, Australia and Brazil, are bidding to host the tournament that will feature 32-teams.
Earlier this year, former KZN Hawks boss Johan Booysen led the same evidence at the state capture commission.