Nathi Mthethwa seeks to discredit the messenger through innuendo, misinformation and outright lies, goes off on a tangent to deflect from the substantive criticism which he completely ignores and slaps himself on the back for even deigning to respond since he is so important and has so much else to do, rather than be accountable as he is required to be.
I challenge the minister to produce the correspondence, the document or the email in which I make this proposal. If he cannot do so within three days, then I call on the honourable minister to do the honourable thing and resign. For clearly, he would not be fit to be a minister.The starting point of my article was Tito Mboweni’s announcement in his Budget speech that consideration is being given to a new national theatre and a new national museum.
How is this consistent with substantive transformation? With “opening the doors of culture”? On this, the minister was completely silent. As he was in providing any rationale for a “new national theatre”, advising me rather “not attempt to portray as the sole custodian of knowledge and institutional memory of how the department ought to be run to the extent of questioning my colleague, Mr Tito Mboweni’s budgetary pledge to this department”.
The Minister also did not say a word about the length of time it has taken – the whole of his tenure and of some of that of the previous minister – to revise the White Paper on Arts and Culture. Mthethwa ends his article thus “were Mr Van Graan to be honest, he would realise that the department in its current form is supremely better than the one he boasts of having played a ‘special adviser’ in”.
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