PROGRAMME FOR AFRICA MONTH 2019 - WE ARE AFRICAN CULTURAL

ACTIVITIES LED BY DAC

DATE DESCRIPTION VENUE/S

01 May 19 Launch of Africa Month - Celebrate Africa Carnival and Festival EThekwini

This is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Union (OAU) now known as the African Union on May 25, 1963. This day is celebrated in most African countries in the continent (it is a holiday in some countries). For the second time, the #CELEBRATEAFRICAFESTIVAL offers a platform for the entire continent to celebrate in one place – joined by a global audience! It is time for Africa! From a caterpillar into a fully-fledged butterfly!

Africa Month Activation is aimed at unveiling the month long programme. Gauteng, Women’s Living Heritage 04 May 2019 The activation will be presented in a form of African village created to provide the look and feel of an Monument African experience. The event will include African food, décor, lighting and artists from the 5 regions of Africa. Elements included in the concept are colorful clothes, face painting, traditional beer, food and exhibitions by each African country. Models exhibiting African fashion will form part of the event.

Dialogue and Convention Vanue: Unisa Art 17 May 2019 Gallery, Kgorong Building, Ground Floor In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Annual Preller Street, New Muckleneuk Pretoria 24 May 2019 We are Africa Film Festival (WAFF) Limpopo: Turfloop University (R40 Hall) This is an annual film festival taking place during Africa Month in different Provinces to promote Date:24 May 2019 African Cinema to strengthen political, economic and social integration amongst African countries. Time: 10H30-15H00 We use film festival to foster social cohesion and African ethics and values.

Mpumalanga Kwamhlanga community Date: 30 – 31 May

Bloemfontein Venue: PACOFS Date: 05-06 June 2019

21-May-19 25 Years of Democracy and Freedom Youth Forum Ekurhuleni- TBC

To reach out to the young people of this continent and ensuring continuity and as part of 25 Year Celebration of Democracy and Freedom.

22 May Africa Month Youth Ambassadors. SADC region Social media dialogues and community engagements.

23 May - !Kauru Visual Arts Exhibition Joburg Arts Gallery (TBC) !KAURU Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition is a project that has been in existence over the past 6 years and their focus has been on dialogue around social and economic cohesion, transformation and access within the creative sectors in South Africa but also across the continent to strengthen engagement and build sustained relationships with creatives in countries around the African continent.

This year, the exhibition is conceptualized as a travelling exhibition initiated in Kampala Uganda in 2016. It will travel to Nairobi, Kenya and then to SA. The exhibition will showcase a series of activities including workshops and roundtable conversations. It is collaboration between SA and East African artists.

Public Programs of !kauru: Public Opening

Johannesburg Art Gallery Cnr Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, 2044 23 May 2019 18h00 -20h00

Curator Walkabout Johannesburg Art Gallery Cnr Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, 2044 Friday, 24 May 2019 11h00 – 13h00

Africa Day Workshop Johannesburg Art Gallery Cnr Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, 2044 Saturday, 25 May 2019 11h00 – 13h00

Finissage Walkabout Johannesburg Art Gallery Cnr Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg, 2044 Sunday, 14 July 2019 13h00 - 17h00 24 May 2019 Annual Celebration of Africa Indigenous Food Cuisine North West

India foods together with parties in Southern African Countries, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Cameroon, Ghana Moses Kobane Local and Gabon would like to celebrate African united on Indigenous foods. The event will see Participation Municipality of bagolo(elderly)and young school learners, people with disability and the whole community. We Letlhakeng Stadium

envisage foods cook-offs, music, dance and poetry and storytelling. to celebrate Africa`s heritage in the form of Cuisine.

24 May Golden Rhino Cultural Exchange Limpopo, Musina Dialogue, exhibition and performances.

24-26 May 25 Years of Freedom Celebration Expo 2019 Gauteng 2019 “To stimulate Economic Freedom for rural and township artist entrepreneurs especially youth and women by stimulating demand for their products and services. Exposing their offerings to National and International potential buyers. Creates a great platform for social cohesion as The content of the event which includes education, conservation of our culture will unite diverse communities from different geographic areas of KZN. Since the location of the event is easily accessible to tourists, the objective is to promote our art and culture through different artistic activities in anticipation for future visitations to our country.

Since one of the objectives will teach through educational activities that are culturally focused, the majority of the audience will be youth, school learners, tourists, families, culture enthusiasts etc. Expose talented disadvantaged youth to publishers, industry promoters and nature conservationist.

24-25 May Bassline Fest Iconic Constitution Hill 2019 in Joburg. This is an exhilarating Music experience set in a truly urban setting at the iconic Constitution Hill in Joburg. Bassline Fest forms part of the Johannesburg leg of the IGODA Festival Circuit. Festivals represented by the IGODA circuit include Azgo Festival – Mozambique, MTN Bushfire – Swaziland, Zakifo Festival – Durban, South Africa, and Sakifo Festival – Reunion Island Amongst other events the Bassline together with the Democracy Works Foundation will host the Cool Politics Café Political dialogues on the 24th May 2019 from 14:00 – 18:00 followed by a reception and live music from 18:00 – 20:00 25 May Malamulele Cultural Heritage Show Limpopo, Vhembe

The annual Collins Chabane Heritage Festival is the champion of cultural, traditional music, dance and arts in the Vhembe region and Limpopo as a whole.

26-May-19 Kwadabeka Africa Day Celebration Ethekwini

Africa Day Celebration headed by:

Mbuso Khoza (South Africa)

Inna Modja (Mali)

Kommando Opps (Lesotho)

30 May - 1 Fashion week June 2019 Soweto Fashion Week provides emerging and established fashion designers the opportunity to The Venue, Soweto showcase their Winter and Summer collections to raise the profile of upcoming brands.

30 May 2019 Celebrating Legends in the African Literary World: Remembering the contributions of the Zone 6 Diepkloof next class of 1919, 1929 and beyond to Bara

Zimbabwe Xhosa Community Cultural Exchange Eastern 30-31 May Cape/Mthatha: 2019 Community Dialogue Songs, Dance and performance. Willowvale

31 May 2019 Love and Hope Africa Festival Nkowankowa

It is an event aimed at encouraging all Africans to forge ahead with social relations. The festival is part of the broader Africa day celebrations.

AFRICAN LEGENDARY QUEENS

The project aims to honour the women of Africa for exceptional work they do to unite our continent. Bay This year we are honouring the legends Charlote Maxeke, Cecilia Makiwanan, Letta Mbulu, Dorothy Masuku and Mama Winnie Madikizela Mandela dor their hand in getting South Africa where it is today.

Zone6 Venue 28, Blackchain Shopping Centre Road Soweto

May SADC Archives Week

2 June 2019 Gcwala Ngamasiko Traditional Song and Dance Soweto (KlipTown)

This unique Africa Day programme is made up of dialogues, collaborative and roadshows showcasing different African cultures. It is a threshold of a process celebrating, affirming and preserving the rich heritage of Africa’s forebears. This honour is bestowed on the teachings of our ancestors by serving as the catalyst that pragmatically sews a thread of togetherness, humanism and oneness amongst people of different ethnic groups, creeds and religious and traditional persuasions.

The Festival involves SA hosting African cultural groups representing other African countries (Seychelles, Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Burundi, Algeria, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Senegal, etc.), collaborative dances and raising awareness about other African Cultures through song and dance

7 June 2019 Mpumalanga Fashion & craft show Mbombela: Emnotweni Arena This is an annual fashion and craft program taking place Month in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. It aims to promote and strengthen African fashion in terms of economic and social intergration amongst African countries. The fashion and craft platform is used to create dialogues between SADC creatives and foster collaborations.

COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME

DATE DESCRIPTION PROPOSED VENUE/S

27 MAY Africa Month Colloquium: Poetry, Polics and Telling Africa’s story in the world Luthuli Museum, 2019 Time: 9am-1pm KwaDukuza, Nature of Event: Workshop and discussion with youth KwaZulu-Natal

Leading Jamaican born and British writer and intellectual, Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ, born 24 August 1952) is a Jamaican dub poet who has long been based in the UK. He is considered to be one of the fathers of “Rap” poetry and music. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Modern Poetry series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub reggae usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell.

Linton Kwesi Johnson will do a talk and have a poetry workshop and reading with students and a general audience. Nise Malange (Bat Centre and poet) will be the chair and a vote of thanks will be provided by Joyce Sukumane with Jerry Pooe providing an opening statement (Director of Wushwini Centre and playwright).There will also be a musical performance and other poets in attendance and participating.

28 MAY Africa Month Colloquium: Celebrating legends in the African Literary World Lecture Soweto Theatre, 2019 Johannesburg Time: 6-10pm Nature of Event: Africa Month Lecture. Readings and musical items by poets and young musicians.

Lecture to be delivered by Linton Kwesi Johnson: “Celebrating Legends in the African literary world.”

This particular lecture and colloquium places a special focus on the work and life contributions of living literary legends, James Matthews, Don Mattera, and Sindiwe Magona.

Don Mattera, born in 1935, who similarly in the early 1970s became involved in the Black Consciousness movement, helped form the Union of Black Journalists and became known for his poetry and esepcially his autobiography, “Memory is a Weapon”.

Sindiwe Magona, born in 1943, is one of many internationally prominent South African writers whose work is informed by her experience of impoverishment, femininity, resistance to subjugation and being a domestic worker. She traversed South Africa’s racially-defined socio-cultural-economic spaces while simultaneously being a mother, wife and community leader in a township. These interlaced themes and realities are pronounced throughout her literary career. She is a prolific author who has produced nine books, among them an autobiographical work, a collection of short stories, novellas and an anthology of poetry. She was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze for her literary and humanitarian contributions and her outstanding achievements in literature and for using her pen as a weapon in the liberation struggle and beyond.

James Matthews: James Matthews, poet, writer and publisher, has produced five books of poetry, a collection of short stories, a novel and an anthology of poetry, which he edited. Most of his work was banned under the previous government and was translated and published overseas. For 13 years he was denied a passport and was placed in detention from September to December 1976. He founded the publishing house called “Blac” through which he has published a number of authors.

Once more a range of literary legends and those of younger generations have been invited to pay tribute to him and to celebrate the lives of other authors. Notable among these is Diana Ferrus.

Diana Ferrus (born 29 August 1953, in Worcester, Western Cape, is a writer, poet and storyteller. Ferrus is best known for her poem about Sarah Bartmann a South African woman taken to Europe under false pretenses and paraded as a curiosity.[ She wrote the poem in 1998 while studying at Utrecht University. The popularity of this poem is widely believed to be responsible for the return of Bartmann's remains to South Africa.

31 May 2019 Africa Month Colloquium: African Solidarity for Africa’s People Gauteng

Time: 12 noon to 4pm Nature of Event: Panel Discussion, Debate and Musical Interlude

This session focuses on the imaging of Africa and forging intra-African solidarity for Africa’s people. Authors from Mozambique, Zimbabwe in addition to South Africa will form part of a discussion panel to look at African solidarity in the midst of disasters and upheaval and stress the importance of African unity in bulding the economy, society and culture of the continent as a whole. Media will be present to be part of this discussion. Readings and music will be part of the presentation.

Prof Jen Snowball from Rhodes University and the South African Cultural Observatory will present a research paper on “South Africa’s cultural goods trade with Africa: policies and trade potentials in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.”

Speakers from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, Adv Sipho Mantula, and Prof Sipho Seepe will be part of a panel chaired by a representative of SA media.

This panel is conducted in partnership with SOECA (State Owned Entities Communications Association) and the Africa Media Network.

ENGAGEMENTS BY DAC IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER PARTNERS (Provincial, Academic, Institutions, Civil Society Organisations)

DATE DESCRIPTION VENUE/S

24 May 2019 Africa Day Socical Cohesion public lecture and cultural programme. The objective of th lecture is a Hall, robust engagemntet on building a better Africa and a better world based on unity and social coheaion. Vaal University of The aim of the engagement seeks to encourage a broad discussion on societal challenges like Crime, Technology, Xenophobia, Racism, and Social Cohesion. Vanderbijlpark Campus - 1911 - Andries Potgieter Blvd

ACTIVITIES BY OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

DATE DESCRIPTION PROPOSED VENUE/S

22 – 23 May Department of Science and Technology) Kievits Kroon 2019 Country Club, Africa Unity for Renaissance Conference. Pretoria The objective of the conference is to;  Reflect on the continued relevance and contribution of Pan Africanism for Africa’s development.  Identify key current governance peace and security challenges and the ways in which an innovative Pan-African approach can deal with them;  Enhance our understanding of the challenges of implementation the AfCFTA and the opportunities for addressing them;  To provide best practice on how STI’s can be used to address specific development challenges;  To assist in defining processes and practices for reinvigorating African Unity and collective self- reliance to achieve the aims and objectives for Agenda 2063  To build a community of research and practice promoting new ways of thinking, relationships and collaboration that will generate new discoveries for innovative paths for Africa’s future;  To commemorate the founding of the Organization of African Unity, and celebrate the diversity, heritage and achievements of Africa. 24 May Department of Science and Technology Freedom Park Heritage Site and Africa Day Celebration Museum

25 May Department of Public Service and Administration

ACTIVITIES BY DAC ENTITIES AND INSTITUTION

DATE DESCRIPTION PROPOSED VENUE/S

23 May 2019 Dialogue on Xenophobia Ditsong Museum of Museums of South Africa will host a dialogue on Xenophobia in South Africa to create an awareness Cultural History of the impact of Xenophobia. The objectives of the public lecture are to create an awareness on the effects of xenophobia, to create an Africa that is unified and free of hatred. Time: 11:00am- 15:00pm

Dress Code: Business Attire

23 may 2019 Night Virgil Kara Heritage village

Performances from African cultural dancers and African spirituality

23 May 2019 Celebrating 25 years of democracy and freedom. Year of indigenous African languages Venue: Museum

24 May 2019 Africa day Celebration Venue: Freedom park Performances from Cultural dancers, Artists exhibitions including display of African Dictionaries

27 May 2019 Panel Discussion Luthuli Museum

28 May 2019 Lecture Gauteng, Joburg/Soweto Theatre

31 May 2019 Oliver Mtukudzi Memorial Lecture VENUE: UMSUNDUZI MUSEUM HALL May 2019 Time: 10:00 351 Langalibalele Street, Pietermaritzburg

ACTIVITIES BY PROVINCES

DATE DESCRIPTION PROPOSED VENUE/S

31 May 2019 African Solidarity for African People TBC

DISCLAIMER: Dates subject to change, please visit www.dac.gov.za/AfricaMonth2019 for up to date calendar of events for the Africa Month 2019 Cultural Programme