Five days into its 11-day celebration of the arts, the National Arts Festival received confirmation of much-needed funding from the National Lotteries Commission .
It had taken the NLC nine months to communicate this to the festival, just one month ahead of the festival’s opening. Scholtz said the festival had applied for multi-year funding of R56-million, but multi-year funding has to be approved by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition in terms of the Lotteries Act.
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