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New “Challenging Change” podcast – bursaries need more than cash
23 August 2011
Watching someone progress from dusty township to the mainstream formal economy through the means of a bursary is an easy concept to grasp, to almost “œtouch and feel”, to measure, and indeed to talk about to our employees and to society at large.
And it’s a relatively simple thing to organise and carry out – a bursary programme – isn’t it? Well yes and, as life would have it, not quite.
Ian Slade, programme manager for bursary programmes of large companies such as FNB and UTi, gives us some practical pointers to success when we want to go the route of social change through the provision of bursaries.
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Comment posted by Margaret Makoka
It trully is a calling when one becomes an artist, I am speaking about an artist that is original, unique in expression and would rather starve than forsake art to go work in a piece job just to make ends meet. It is really tough in south africa, when you are not a celebrity or a cemmecialised musician or even a celebrated visual and fine artist. Even though art is a diverse medium and a large print of recording events trending or not, south africans have found a voice and a means to make there art known, and it is by this nature that the arts are used as a tool to find healing, find forgiveness and acceptance, to learn to live together and educate our people.
I love it when the director general of arts and culture paul mashatile refers artists as a creative ecomony and our heritage the golden economy. Many international countries have unrooted the secret of using art not only as a tool to communicate and record their cultural richness but as an economy generating power house, running their roots deep into south african soil to pose as a powerful people.
South Africa need to start recognising the richness of its cultures and the artist behind the strength of this culture. Preserving the old, naturing the present and investing in the future.
I hope after the nation’ s address and the 178000 jobs promised, artists are among this number.
Let’s empower our nation.