Lifetime Tony Award for Athol Fugard

Lifetime Tony Award for Athol Fugard

Celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard will receive a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at the 2011 Tony Awards in New York on Sunday.

Nandipha Mntambo: art beneath the hide

Nandipha Mntambo, the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for visual art, is known for using cowhide as a canvas for exploring the creative process and challenging societal and cultural norms. Now she's taking her exploration further.

Tony Award for SA puppet company

South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company has won a coveted Tony Award for the life-size puppets that are at the heart of the highly acclaimed West End and Broadway play War Horse.

Mamela Nyamza: the body as instrument

Multiple award-winning dancer, choreographer, teacher and development activist Mamela Nyamza, the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner for Dance, started using dance to translate the world around her as a child growing up in Gugulethu in the 1980s.

South African short films hit the big time

Three South African short films have been selected for the prestigious Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, or Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, to be held in May in the river city of that name in the Ruhr region of Germany.

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