Mthethwa's blowing his own trumpet again with plans for national orchestra
Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa faces a backlash from the public over a plan to establish a R30m national orchestra.
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Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa faces a backlash from the public over a plan to establish a R30m national orchestra.
In a light moment at the Black Business Council meeting in Midrand on Thursday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the audience how the minister of sports, arts and culture Nathi Mthethwa called to ask him for advice on how to handle SA’s reaction to the R22m "monumental" flag scandal.
The scandal over a proposed R22m monumental flag illustrates once more that our governing class keeps itself occupied with vanity projects.
As FMF writer Sindile Vabaza opines, a flag that fails to resonate with the lived experience of its people is a monument to nothing. Pride?
Propping up others, spending R22m on a flag and dropping fuel price relief when plates are empty is asking for trouble