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Performance artist, cultural manager and academic, Nkazimulo Mkhwanazi is a masters candidate at the University of Witwatersrand and strives to use cultural governance and the Arts sector as a research tool for socio-economic development within the Cultural and Creative Industries. Mkhwanazi’s on-screen career dates back to where she started off on multiple eTv’s eKasi Our Stories and later Lokshin Bioskop films. While under the University of Johannesburg’s Arts Centre in 2016, Mkhwanazi’s budding career soared as she played multiple colours in the adaptation of Ntozakhe Shange’s For Colored Girls Choreopoem directed by Khutjo Green and Namasthego Khutsoane won a Standard Bank Ovation Award. Her versatility and commitment to the craft has been evident on the small screen on SABC 1s Ingozi S1&2, Muvhango S18 among others. Since then, she further had the privilege of playing on multiple prestigious stages at the Johannesburg City Theatres, Jozi Book Fair and National Arts Festival. Mkhwanazi understands that sustainability within the creative industries is a challenge in the Arts and Culture sector, hence her resilience on and off-screen as a freelance project coordinator, Theatre In Education facilitator and academic under the Wits School of Arts where her intentions are to further delve deeper into the richness that the arts and culture have to offer. Her research is embedded under the curiosity of the Arts and Culture Sector and its impact on Performing Arts Organisations within minority communities in the rural arrears and how the access to resources and information can be improved.
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