South Africa at 25: Freedom of expression and assembly is here, but with definite limits By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
Award-winning South African playwright Mike van Graan helped to shape South Africa’s first post-apartheid policies relating to arts and culture.
Looking back on then and now, Van Graan describes the last 25 years as a “mixed trajectory” when it comes to conditions for artists in South Africa.On the matter of publicly-funded institutions, we have gone backwards to the apartheid era where politicians appoint boards and the chairpersons of boards of publicly-funded cultural institutions,” Van Graan toldThe first five years of the ‘New South Africa’ were different.
PEN South Africa’s Nokukhanya Mncwabe points out, for instance, that although South Africa’s writers and journalists now enjoy a degree of freedom unthinkable in the repressive height of apartheid, public access to the fruits of that freedom is still restricted by geography and money.We must consider how freedom of expression doesn’t equally map across rural and urban areas,” Mncwabe says.
When it comes to freedom of association in particular, Mtabane suggests that “the relationship between the state and citizens is probably healthy; the relationship between citizens is in dire need of resuscitation”.
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