Long journey back to confidence for black South Africans

Last edited: March 02, 2010

Posted by Business and Arts South Africa

Written by Katy Chance

Source: Business Day
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There is a sense the world over that the arts don’t matter much,” says Eric Abraham, in Cape Town for the opening of the Fugard Theatre, the new “home” for the approximately 35-strong, all-black theatre group, Isango Portobello, that Abraham created with artistic director Mark Dornford-May and opera singer Pauline Malefane in 2006. “There is a universal misconception that the arts will take care of themselves; that it’ll ‘be all right on the night’ - but it’s simply not true.”

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