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Cricket South Africa has no choice but to transform: Mthethwa in Parliament
Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa has slammed Cricket South Africa for obstructing calls for change.
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’This shouldn’t be just a celebration’ - Govt launches ‘Year of Charlotte Maxeke’
A media launch was held on 30 April 2021 for the ‘Year of Charlotte Maxeke' as declared by Cabinet in March 2021. The media launch was led by Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa, Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu.
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Mkhwebane steps in to mediate standoff between artists, NAC
Following public outcry, Mkhwebane and Deputy Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka met with Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa and members of the council last week.
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CSA staff to Nathi Mthethwa: What about our jobs?
The CSA staff also urged the Interim Board and the Members Council to go back to the drawing board and find an amicable solution.
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'A very sad day for our country,' says interim board after CSA de-funding
The Minister said in a statement that he has applied his mind to the matter and there those who are irrational on the members' council.
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There are laws in place now to avoid repeat of Ellis Park tragedy - Mthethwa
On 11 April 2001, 43 people were trampled to death and many others injured in a stampede at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg during a soccer match between Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
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'Are we betraying the cause of freedom?' ANC asks as Solomon Mahlangu remembered
The African National Congress held a commemoration ceremony for struggle icon Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, who was hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison on 6 April 1979. Party deputy general-secretary Jessie Duarte made a call to members to remember what they stood for.
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'People had to pull their kids out of school': Artists protest over mismanaged R300m relief fund
A group of artists staged a sit-in at the National Arts Council in Newtown. They said that many of them had not received their money and were left struggling. Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa admitted that the budget was mismanaged by the NAC, saying that he has instructed the department to investigate.
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Artists take National Arts Council to court over alleged maladministration
The stimulus programme was introduced as a means of creating job opportunities and to revive the battered industry, but applicants claim the majority of the funds were squandered.
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Mthethwa: Alleged mismanagement of funds for artists will be investigated
Minister Nathi Mthethwa stresses that money has not gone missing and that the the National Arts Council has simply overcommitted funds to be disbursed.
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Mthethwa: Budget was mismanaged by the National Arts Council
Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa gave an update on the Presidential Employment Stimulus Package (PESP) programme, which is designed to act as an aggressive injection of income into the economy that enables ambitious proposals that create opportunities for employment and collaboration. The National Arts Council (NAC) was entrusted by the department the administer the PESP. #NationalArtsCouncil #PESP
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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”.
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‘She was a true thespian’: Arts Minister remembers late actress Lindiwe Ndlovu
Lindiwe Ndlovu died at her home on Monday just a week after celebrating her 45th birthday.
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Anele Ngcongca remembered as a gentle giant and mentor
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.
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Sports Minister Mthethwa announces interim board at CSA
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.
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Mthethwa informs ICC of govt intervention at crisis-hit CSA
This followed a series of meetings between Mthethwa and crisis-hit CSA to try and resolve issues at the embattled organisation.
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Lockdown: Artists alliance calls for meeting with Ramaphosa over state of sector
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".
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Mthethwa describes Swiss court ruling against Semenya as an injustice
The two-time Olympic champion lost an appeal against the restriction of testosterone in female athletes.
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Black Lives Matter forces South African sport to face past demons
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.
