"Bakwena Arts": a case study of arts and culture policy and implementation in the Limpopo Province
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2009-10-13T12:08:16Z
Authors
Franks, Daniel Zachariah
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In this research I examine the legacy of Arts and Culture Administration
in the Limpopo Province, specifically with the intention of bringing to
light the ways in which the evolution of this administrative structure has
been largely framed by a history of domination by manifold colonial
states. This fact of history has been shown to have given life to unique
phenomena that are the seeming birth right of the new dispensation:
corruption, inequality, apologism, blamelessness and rural contempt.
The research makes special reference to the difficulties encountered
by the emergent Northern Transvaal / Northern Province / Limpopo
Province in establishing arts infrastructure and basic delivery. These
difficulties are shown to be due to the former Transvaal’s policy of
centralized cultural structures, and further compounded by the
implications of the transformation of Pretoria’s State Theatre. This
specific instance will inform an examination of the disparities between
rural and urban realities in postcolony SA.
My own practical work is discussed in relation to the above as far as it
deals with the everyday production of culture, represented by the
intrusion of global modern media into highly disparate social contexts.