Nelson Mandela Month 2021

    For Nelson Mandela International Day 2021, the focus will be on two critical intersecting challenges being faced by South Africa and many other countries – food insecurity and cultures of lawlessness. Covid-19 has deepened patterns of poverty and inequality. The numbers of people going hungry are growing. Social cohesion is under severe strain.

UPDATE ON RELOCATION FROM ASHBURNHAM TO VARIOUS OFFICE BUILDINGS IN KIMBERLEY MEDIA STATEMENT

  The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has finalised its relocation from the old office building at number 22 Abattoir Road in the Ashburnham industrial site in Kimberley. The department has temporarily relocated its Provincial Library Services to the second floor of Permanent Building in the Kimberley's Central Business District in the Frances Baard

Youth Month 2021

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto when young people protested against imposition of Afrikaans by the apartheid regime as a medium of instruction.   The uprising ended tragically with hundreds of young people being brutally killed. Following the advent of democracy in 1994, the new democratic