Charlotte Maxeke exhibition and poetry competition
Celebrating Maxeke’s socio-religious contribution to South Africa’s heritage
IN celebration of Women’s Month, the KZN Department of Arts and Culture, in partnership with the correctional services department in KZN, is launching the Charlotte Maxeke Poetry Competition for female inmates.
The competition, which highlights Maxeke’s socio-religious contribution to South Africa’s heritage, was officially launched by KZN MEC for Arts and Culture Hlengiwe Mavimbela at the KZN Museum in Pietermaritzburg and then Westville Correctional Centre.
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‘The poetry competition forms part of the rehabilitation programme through creative arts, which includes six female correctional KZN centres in Westville, eShowe, New Hanover, Kokstad, Vryheid and Newcastle,’ said Mavimbela.
All competition participants will receive a certificate, with the winners receiving a cash prize. Their poems will be published for further royalty gains.
Continued celebration of 150 years of the political activist will include the Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke Travelling Exhibition hosted at the Pietermartizburg Museum until November, moving to Carnegie Art Gallery in Amajuba in December, and ending at Empangeni Museum in May 2022.
