CULTURE CLUBBED: SA artists’ call to Ramaphosa: Stop making Arts & Culture a dumping ground for delinquent Ministers

When Nathi Mthethwa was moved by former President Jacob Zuma from the police portfolio to the role of Minister of Arts and Culture in 2014, it was widely viewed as a demotion.

, Mthethwa was asked whether he would support the right of a private art gallery to show a painting like Brett Murray’s– the now-infamous depiction of Zuma with his genitals exposed which prompted legal threats from the ANC during its exhibition in 2012.Mthethwa’s appointment deepened the perception of the Department of Arts & Culture as a dumping ground for under-performing or politically radioactive ANC Ministers.

Though a number of ministers and deputy ministers were appointed under former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma who were not serving MPs at the time, the only appointment of a non-politically affiliated Cabinet minister over the last 25 years was Nelson Mandela’s selection of Chris Liebenberg as Finance Minister in the government of national unity in 1994.

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