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2009/04/21
P Jordan congratulates film making team
Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan congratulates the creative film making team of 'Gugu and Andile' for scooping three awards at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria. Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan congratulates South African film director, Minky Schlesinger for scooping the Best Picture in an African Language Award at the African Movie Awards in Abuja, Nigeria. The selection of films was exceptional from many African countries such as South ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042114151001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Collection: gov
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2009/04/20
P Jordan: Underwater Cultural Heritage
I am mentioning all these because you cannot talk about South African underwater cultural heritage without Cape Town or the two oceans that converge here. UNESCO's adoption of the UCH Convention was in way an affirmation of UCH as an integral part of the cultural heritage of humanity. In conclusion, I want to state that South Africa will be working towards ensuring that Underwater Cultural Heritage issues are taken up at our regional and continental bodies such as SADC and the African Union... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042015551001.htm Size: 19KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/04/17
The forthcoming Confederations Cup and the 2010 World Cup offers all South Africa's craft sector a unique opportunity. I am certain that South Africa's crafters have and are preparing themselves to take advantage of this once-off opportunity and are producing souvenirs and other craft products that the visitors will find worth spending their money on. South Africa has unique and innovative products with considerable product diversity. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042015351001.htm Size: 13KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/04/17
P Jordan: Downtown Music Hub project
The coming Soccer World Cup and related events offer the South African music industry a marketing opportunity second to none. South Africa could become the centre of a continental African music and entertainment industry. The national carrier, South African Airways (SAA), should have more South African music on its entertainment menus. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042010051001.htm Size: 17KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/04/15
P Jordan to announce plans to purchase recording studio, 17 Apr
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan will announce plans in purchasing Downtown Studios in Johannesburg to turn it into a creative powerhouse for the creation and development of a uniquely South African musical sound. The event will take place on Friday, 17 April 2009 at Downtown Studios, 62 Goud Street, corner of Fox Street, in Johannesburg from 10h30. There is no doubt that South African music is loved by the people of the world as has been shown by the international ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09041516151001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Collection: gov
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2009/04/08
P Jordan pays tribute to Cecil Skotnes
As Minister of Arts and Culture it was with sadness that I learnt of the passing away of the internationally renowned artist, Cecil Skotnes this week. From 1952 to 1966 Cecil Skotnes taught art at the Polly Street Art Centre, in Johannesburg, which was virtually one of the only places for black artists to receive training until the appearance of Rorkes Drift Centre in northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in the late 1960s. Cecil Skotnes is deeply admired and leaves a rich legacy through his ... [highlighted result]
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2009/04/01
P Jordan: Opening of Tropics Views from the middle of the globe exhibition
For many decades what was available in Art History Books tended to be Eurocentric, reflecting the dominant position the countries of Europe occupied in world affairs during the 19th and twentieth centuries. The Art history of the rest of the world has remained relatively invisible and tended not be recognised. This exhibition begins to address this firstly by putting the pre-modern art works on popular exhibition and secondly, by giving artists from many parts of the world a chance to exhibit... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09040210151001.htm Size: 9KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/03/27
P Jordan: Launch of Encyclopaedia of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ESAACH)
One of the "unsolicited" documents I received at that meeting contained a prospectus for an Encyclopaedia of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ESAACH). The ESAACH prospectus broke the subject down to its component elements namely, the verbal arts, the performing arts, the visual arts and other aspects of South African heritage from antiquity to the present. Nation building: To foster a sense of pride in and knowledge of all aspects of South African culture, heritage and the arts [and to] encourage ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09040211451001.htm Size: 18KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/03/14
P Jordan: South African library week
Msunduzi Municipal Library formerly The Natal Society Library has provided public library services for the people of Pietermaritzburg since 1850. On 1 April 2004, libraries and staff of The Natal Society were integrated into the Msunduzi Municipality as Msunduzi Municipal Library Services. The main library, named the Bessie Head Library, and eight branch libraries, aim to provide a comprehensive library service to all residents of Pietermaritzburg and the Msunduzi Municipal area. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09031709451001.htm Size: 17KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/03/12
P Jordan on South African awards at Pan-African Film and Cinema Festival (FESPACO)
South African film makers have, again proven that they can be trend-setters and achievers as African film story-tellers. In the last few years South African film makers have won numerous awards and other accolades both on the continent and abroad. The coveted Ousmane Sembene prize is a significant achievement for South African film makers that acknowledge them as among the leaders on the continent. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09031216451001.htm Size: 10KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Collection: gov
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2009/03/12
P Jordan congratulates Mandla Langa for winning best book award
South Africa's creative talents are presently sweeping the board in African film, literature and in music. Mandla Langa is one of South Africa's rising literary talents who was first published during the 1980s. The commonwealth writers' prize aims to reward the best commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers, and to take their works to a global audience. [highlighted result]
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2009/03/09
P Jordan: Competition for design of Sarah Baartman Centre of Remembrance
* Healing: given the past injustices against Sarah Baartman, the Khoekhoe and San peoples, to affirm the culture of human rights. The Sarah Baartman Centre of Remembrance will be linked to the development of the KhoiSan Heritage Route, which shall be a nation-wide project of significant KhoiSan heritage sites. The development of the Khoisan Heritage Route, along which will be the Sarah Baartman gravesite, the Sarah Baartman Centre of Remembrance, as well as other physical markings elated to ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09030915151001.htm Size: 15KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/03/04
P Jordan to honour Sarah Bartmann as part of International Women's Day, 6 to 8 Mar
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan invites media to a series of events to honour Sarah Bartmann. The Department has partnered the Western and Eastern Cape provinces, the University of Western Cape, Kouga Municipality, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and the Khoi-San Agency to ensure that the planned activities are as inclusive and productive as possible. Date: 7 March 2009 The programme will start with a Khoisan ritual ceremony at the Sarah Bartmann gravesite, Hankey ... [highlighted result]
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2009/02/27
P Jordan on French Knighthood for Robyn Orlin
Accolades are in order for Robyn Orlin who is being made a Knight of the French National Order of Merit in recognition of her remarkable creative contribution to the arts. We are proud of Robyn Orlin, a South African receiving this prestigious award from France. May Robyn Orlin continue with her creative impulse reaching further heights. [highlighted result]
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2009/02/20
P Jordan on Commonwealth Africa region literacy prize
It speaks to the outstanding literary talent in our country that the five authors shortlisted for the best book from the Africa region are all from South Africa. Another aspect of the coveted prize is to promote new voices through the best first book prize and here too of the five selected authors for the Africa region, four are from South Africa and one from Nigeria. Women writers have staked their claims with highly acclaimed authors, Sindiwe Magona (Beauty's gift, Kwela) and Zoe Wicomb (... [highlighted result]
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2009/02/19
P Jordan: Rivonia Trial Papers listing on Unesco world archives
Speech by Minister of Arts And Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan on the listing of the Rivonia Trial Papers on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (Unesco's) Memory of the World Archives International Register, National Archives of South Africa Building Pretoria. According to the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Act No 43 of 1996 (as amended), the Rivonia Trial papers are public records, and therefore have to be preserved at the National Archives ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09021912451001.htm Size: 23KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/02/18
P Jordan on indigenous African literature
The Minister of Arts and Culture Dr Z Pallo Jordan has strongly criticised the publishing industry for failing to promote books in indigenous African languages. Jordan was speaking at a function to launch the re-issue of South African classics at the National Library in Pretoria last Monday. Jordan charged the National Library to forge partnerships with old publishing houses like Lovedale, Tygerkloof and Morija in Lesotho to re-issue the classics in African languages re-issued. [highlighted result]
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2009/02/17
P Jordan: Indigenous languages literary classics launch
Virtually from the day I assumed office as Minister of Arts and Culture in June 2004, I entered into a rather fruitless dialogue with our South African book publishing sector. The Department of Arts and Culture is charged with the responsibility of enhancing socio-economic development, promoting social cohesion, nation-building and nurturing a new sense of national identity through the development, preservation and promotion of South African arts and culture. Owing to circumstances well-known... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09021810151001.htm Size: 15KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov
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2009/02/13
P Jordan to address anniversary of Matola Raid in Mozambique, 14 Feb
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will speak at the 28th anniversary of the Matola Raid on Saturday, 14 February 2009 in Mozambique. The deceased were Mduduzi Guma, Lancelot Hadebe, Mandla Daka, Daniel Molokisi, Steven Ngcobo, Vusumzi Ngwema, Thabang Bookolane, Krishna Rabilal, Themba Dimba, William Khanyile, Motso Mokgabudi, Collin Khumalo, Levinson Mankankaza, Albert Mahutso and others. The commemoration of the... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09021314451001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Department of Arts and Culture Collection: gov
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2009/02/10
P Jordan: Sod turning at first theatre building in Soweto
The absence of a physical building, housing a theatre does not mean that there was no theatre among Sowetans. The erection of a theatre complex is a vindication of generations of theatre practitioners who, against all odds, persevered and brought theatre to townships like Soweto. In our day, South African theatre has once again taken the world theatre by storm as sheer entertainment with breathtaking revues like "Umoja", "The Lion King" and "Kat and the Kings" The reception these productions ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09030414451002.htm Size: 14KB Source: Department of Art and Culture Speaker: P Jordan Collection: gov