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| Established | 1902 |
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| Location | Durban South Africa |
| Type | Art Center, Art Gallery, Art Museum |
| Website | https://www.kznsagallery.co.za/ |
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) is a nonprofit art gallery and art center in Durban, South Africa.
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| Established | 1902 |
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| Location | Durban South Africa |
| Type | Art Center, Art Gallery, Art Museum |
| Website | https://www.kznsagallery.co.za/ |
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) is a nonprofit art gallery and art center in Durban, South Africa.
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts, one of the first art centers in Durban, was founded in 1902 in Glenwood, Durban, as a not-for-profit, public benefit organization with 18A status. Initially established as an opportunity for artists to show and discuss their works, it experienced major growth and transformations. The key components of the organizations are the gallery exhibitions and public education programs, seminars, and specialist conferences. Linked to an extensive network of national institutions, it promotes cultural exchange with a belief in inclusivity. Essentially a gallery for contemporary art it promotes national and international artists with an inclination towards artists of the province. [1]
The KZNSA Gallery has shown exhibitions by artists such as Thando Mama (2005), Markus Wörsdörfer, (2018), William Kentridge, Theaster Gates, Cameron Platter, Jeremy Wafer, Mbongeni Buthelezi, Tom Cullberg, Penny Siopis, Callan Grecia, Derrick Nxumalo, [2] and young artist and fashion designer Gumede in 2023. [3] The gallery takes part in Go Durban Durban's Connect03, a first Thursday event. In 2024 they hosted the exhibition "Reflections of Apollo" by the Apollo Queer Art Collective with works by Franco Zucchella, Quinton Lehnert, Daniel Garbade, Peter Garrard, Michael Biello, José Gomez and Raúl Moya-Mula, and the exhibition of the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery Portraits Award 2024 with more than 40 works. [4]
They host several film festivals, like the Diff Short Films ( 2018) and the second International Film Festival, showcasing 30 student films in 2023. [5]
The center offers diverse music performances with live concerts by Raheem Kemet, Lungelo Manzi, Zoe The Seed, Madala Kunene, [6] Kerolin Govender Zawadi Yamungu or Guy Buttery in 2019. [7]
Constructed on a trapezoidal site located between two roads and an Edwardian villa, the building is the result of a public competition. Constructed in 1996 by the architects Cindy Walters and Michál Cohen on an area of 1000m2, [8] it is set back from the main villa and looks at an intermediate garden with under-the-sky seating amidst indigenous acacia trees. A staircase links the two roads, allowing access from both to the mezzanine level. The compound includes a shop for handmade merchandise and art from other African countries. [9]
Durban is the third-most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal. Durban forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which includes neighbouring towns and has a population of about 4 million, making the combined municipality one of the largest cities on the Indian Ocean coast of the African continent. Durban was also one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville.
Greytown is a town situated on the banks of a tributary of the uMvoti River in a richly fertile timber-producing area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Pinetown is a city that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, based just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town is situated 16 km north-west of Durban and 64 km south-east of Pietermaritzburg.
Established in 1990, Splashy Fen is South Africa's longest-running music festival, which every Easter attracts thousands of people to a farm near Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal for a unique outdoor music experience. Also present are arts and crafts stalls, food and drink outlets, crèche and children's entertainment programme, as well as various camping and accommodation options. The most recent festival took place from the 14th-17th April 2022.
Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene was a South African poet best known for his translation of the epic Zulu poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active supporter and organiser of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He later taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and become Africa's and South Africa's first poet laureate.
Below is a list of mayors of Durban, South Africa. In 2000 Durban became the seat of the newly created eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality.
There have been many political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa. In 2013 it was reported that there had been more than 450 political assassinations in the province of KwaZulu-Natal since the end of apartheid in 1994. In July 2013 the Daily Maverick reported that there had been "59 political murders in the last five years". In August 2016 it was reported that there had been at least twenty political assassinations in the run up to the local government elections on the 3rd of August that year, most of them in KwaZulu-Natal.
Cedric Nunn is a South African photographer best known for his photography depicting the country before and after the end of apartheid.
Guy Buttery is a South African musician primarily known as a guitar player.
Affectionately known as "Bafo", Madala Kunene is a South African musician born in Kwa-Mashu, near Durban. Kunene started busking on Durban’s beach-front at the age of 7, making his first guitar out of a cooking oil tin and fish gut for the strings, soon becoming a popular performer in the townships.
Leona Valerie Theron is a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before her elevation in July 2017, she served in the Supreme Court of Appeal between December 2010 and June 2017. She is the first Coloured judge to serve in the Constitutional Court.
Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Durban in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
Zwakele Maxwell Mncwango is a South African politician who is the provincial chairperson of ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal. He was a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2018 to 2022 and served as the Leader of the Opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2018 to 2019. He was the Provincial Leader of the KwaZulu-Natal Democratic Alliance (DA) from 2015 to 2021. Mncwango was the party's KwaZulu-Natal Premier candidate for the 2019 election.
Bongiwe or Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa, is a Zulu South African printmaker, arts administrator and activist.
James Sikhosiphi Nxumalo is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2019. He was formerly the Mayor of eThekwini from 2011 to 2016, and during that time he was engaged in a strident political rivalry with Zandile Gumede, who became his successor. He was elected to a five-year term on the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 2022, and he has served as the Provincial Chairperson of the SACP's KwaZulu-Natal branch for over a decade.
Bheki Ntuli is a South African politician who is active in the African National Congress (ANC) of KwaZulu-Natal. He is known for his tenure as Regional Secretary of the ANC's eThekwini branch, an office he held from 2015 to 2019. He subsequently led the branch as its interim coordinator from 2020 until 2022, when he was voted out of the leadership by allies of Zandile Gumede. In July 2022, he was elected to a four-year term on the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal branch.
AWG Champion, was a South African trade unionist, activist, writer and public intellectual.
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