By Steven Sack It was around the turn of the century. The Director General of the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, was deep in the looming calamity of the “millennium bug”, the “Y2K”, that was predicted for the day the clock ticked forward from 1999 to the year 2000. Just one of many …
By Steven Sack It was 1988, and I had arranged to meet Dumile Feni at the offices of the ANC in New York. Feni was scheduled to meet with the head of an ANC delegation to show him the poster that he had been commissioned to make of Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his …
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The gallery will be open to the public every first Saturday of the month, from 10am – 2pm.At the peak of the cultural bustle of the Cape Town Art Fair, Premier Alan Winde officially opened the Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters Remembrance Gallery in Cape Town on Saturday, 19 February 2022. It occupies the former slave quarters, …
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