{"id":9080,"date":"2021-01-27T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:57:20","slug":"nathimustgo-artists-call-for-ministers-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2021\/01\/27\/nathimustgo-artists-call-for-ministers-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"#NathiMustGO | Artists call for Minister&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 15 January, Minister of Sport, Arts &amp; Culture, Nathi Mthethwa tweeted \u201cSouth African theatre is alive and well with performing arts institutions of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture such as @ArtscapeTheatre, @MarketTheatre, @PACOFS3, @DurbanPlayhouse, @statetheatre and @WindybrowTheatr (sic) offering an array of indigenous drama and dance etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet artists in the industry beg to differ as they call for his removal and started the #NathiMustGO online petition demanding for the Ministers resignation by the end of the month. If he doesn\u2019t resign, they call upon President Cyril Ramaphosa to replace him in February.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\/4 Failing this, we call upon President Ramaphosa to replace Mr Mthethwa in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Nebe (@WarrenNebe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarrenNebe\/status\/1351515593720143872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A petition, drafted by artists, requesting the removal of the Minister of Sport, Arts &amp; Culture following his inability to deal with how COVID has impacted our sector.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NathiMustGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NathiMustGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gEYLLfHJTH\">https:\/\/t.co\/gEYLLfHJTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lebogang Mashile (@lebomashile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lebomashile\/status\/1351775407239004160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also expressing that the offensive tweet is one of the many encounters that reflect their long experience with the minister as &#8220;incompetent&#8221;, &#8220;aloof&#8221;, &#8220;out of touch&#8221; and said to be the &#8220;Minister of Congratulations and Condolences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\/8&#8230; in the country and underscores his lack of understanding of, and empathy with the enormous losses within the arts sector over the last ten months.<\/p>\n<p>We wake up almost daily to reports of artists \u2013 including many theatre and dance practitioners &#8211; having succumbed to COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Nebe (@WarrenNebe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarrenNebe\/status\/1351517859852247044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following this, Minister Nathi Mthethwa issued an apology noting that \u201cAlthough arts and culture practitioners are among the most brutally impacted by the devastating pandemic, they are a source of pride and inspiration and have not hesitated to dig deep within themselves to continue to create, to entertain and to comfort our nation in these trying times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MasechabaNdlovu\/status\/1352139602220494848<\/p>\n<p>DJ Ankletap and Kandis Kardashian of #YMornings spoke to two of the #NathiMustGO founding members- Rehabilitation expert, Sibongile Mngoma and Theatre director &amp; Founder of the Wits Drama for Life, Warren Nebe.<\/p>\n<p>The industry greats weighed in on how they received the apology and the way forward:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streaming.fabrik.fm\/fabrik\/echocast\/player\/rewind-single\/player.html?id=911bf04b-f407-4d12-bf38-f5392b28d26c&amp;web_url=https:\/\/echocast.fabrik.fm\/Y7qV3G9D3XR3Wm&amp;podcast_id=bb973cb8-474d-426d-b7f7-4941e9639c24\">https:\/\/streaming.fabrik.fm\/fabrik\/echocast\/player\/rewind-single\/player.html?id=911bf04b-f407-4d12-bf38-f5392b28d26c&amp;web_url=https:\/\/echocast.fabrik.fm\/Y7qV3G9D3XR3Wm&amp;podcast_id=bb973cb8-474d-426d-b7f7-4941e9639c24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 15 January, Minister of Sport, Arts &amp; Culture, Nathi Mthethwa tweeted \u201cSouth African theatre is alive and well with performing arts institutions of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture such as @ArtscapeTheatre, @MarketTheatre, @PACOFS3, @DurbanPlayhouse, @statetheatre and @WindybrowTheatr (sic) offering an array of indigenous drama and dance ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,96],"tags":[1049,92,1050,1051,1052,95,1053,1054,1055,1056,1057],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-trending","tag-nathimustgo","tag-ymornings","tag-arts-culture","tag-arts-culture-minister","tag-dj-ankletap","tag-kandis-kardashian","tag-minister-nathi-mthethwa","tag-news","tag-sibongile-mngoma","tag-sports-minister","tag-warren-nebe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/web_photo_nathi_mthethwa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}