For South Africa, like so much of the rest of the world, 2021 has featured Covid lockdowns, stringent audience restrictions and permanent venue closures, which together have had a catastrophic impact on the country’s arts and cultural community.
Left without incomes, some artists have had to sell cars or household goods, have failed to pay mandatory school fees for children, forgone medical and dental needs, cancelled insurance and pension fund payments, and ultimately moved in with friends or back to their families if there was even space. This disaster has had wider implications for the national economy as well, given that the country’s arts and culture sector represents more than 7% of the national economic life in more normal times.
Mobilising supporters, she led a peaceful occupation of the offices of the National Arts Council, demanding an accurate audit of its grant programme and public disclosure of the names of those being helped, as well as the amounts given. In a way uncommon for today’s South Africa, she has also publicly criticised Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa in the media, insisting that his office respond fully to the growing criticisms of his department’s grant programme.
The Sowetan quoted Mngoma, who had said: “After we had a good meeting with the department last week, they agreed to meet us today. They decided to postpone the meeting at the 11th hour. I received a text when I was on my way here from Bloemfontein. I refused to allow that to happen. The cancellation was at the last minute. Now they are harassing us for having this peaceful picket.
Across 12 deeply personal tracks, the album details the singer’s divorce from Simon Konecki in 2019. While Adele is no stranger to emotional transparency in her music, 30 truly leaves no emotional stone unturned. Whether it is explaining the separation to their nine year-old son, Angelo, on the gruelling My Little Love, or confessing the high-stakes intimacy that compelled her into the marriage in the first place, on the anthemic ballad To Be Loved, Adele came out swinging.
With a prolific cult of personality and beloved music that could seemingly unite a nation, Adele’s re-emergence from a six-year musical hiatus has cemented her status as a global superstar.This year saw not one, but two popular documentaries about the well publicised battle for Britney Spears’s freedom from a conservatorship that essentially gave her father, Jamie, and her management full control over her person and estate for the past 13 years.
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