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Alice Walker to explore Biko ties

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08 September 2010

Prof Alice Walker has arrived in South Africa to deliver the 11th annual lecture honouring the late Stephen Bantu Biko, an anti-apartheid activist and leader who founded the Black Consciousness Movement.
Biko's legacy lives on

   

Arts Alive ushers in a feeling of spring

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07 September 2010

Taking place through the month of September, the Arts Alive Festival is Johannesburg's flagship arts event, and this year it is bigger than before, with hundreds of events spread across 30 venues in the city.
Avalon Theatre rises from the ashes

   

Avalon Theatre rises from the ashes

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23 August 2010

Seventy-one years of independent South African cinema will be celebrated this year when the Moosa family's Avalon Group, once almost destroyed by apartheid, opens a new luxury Cine Centre in the upmarket Killarney Mall in Johannesburg.
SA film shines at Zanzibar festival

   

More international cricket for South Africa

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20 August 2010

South African sports fans are in for yet another treat, with the international 2010 Airtel Champions League Twenty20 championship taking place around the country in September.
SA to host women's cricket challenge

   

Godot a hit with South African audiences

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17 August 2010

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which finished a two-year international run in Cape Town in August, is an enduring favourite with local theatregoers, and a closer look at Beckett's work reveals echoes of the South African situation.
New Fugard play takes to stage

   

Major turnaround for South African ballet

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06 August 2010

After months of financial strain, the South African Ballet Theatre is back on its feet and ready to stage a glittering season of Carmen, thanks to a range of generous benefactors.
SA ballet shines in dark times

   

Local heroines in the spotlight

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06 August 2010

In celebration of Women’s Month in South Africa, the Department of Arts and Culture has launched a number of initiatives to honour female icons who’ve helped shape a more democratic society.
Women's Month launched in SA

   

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