THE Western Cape has a host of Heritage Day activities ranging from Plettenberg Bays Whiskey, Whales and Jazz Festival, which ends today and cultural and musical celebrations at the District Six Museum featuring live bands.
Other events include: The Knysna Gastronomica Festival to get a taste of interesting local food, entertainment, music and dancing.
Paarl is hosting the Cultivaria as part of Heritage Day long weekend celebrations. The Cultivaria Festival is a fusion of pleasure, culture and adventure. It ends today.
Plettenberg Bay Heritage Day long weekend celebrations includes the Whiskey, Whales and Jazz Festival which will give visitors an opportunity to taste an assortment of whiskies and listen to some South African jazz.
Some of the acts performing at this years festival are Dino Mirando, Lira, Malaika and Selaelo Selota and local favourite, Freshlyground.
For a real township expe~ rience South Africans can visit Mzolis Butchery in Gugulethu on National Braai Day today, which forms part of Heritage Day celebrations.
The day will also see a concert honouring veteran drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo and his receipt of the Order of Ikhamanga, South Africas highest honour in the field of arts and culture, at the Artscape Theatre at 8pm.
Premier Ebrahim Rasool and members of his cabinet will meet at the Food and Allied Workers Union offices in Gugulethu which will be followed by a symbolic walk to the site where the Gugulethu Seven were killed by apartheid police. From there they will walk to the site where American Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehi was murdered.
District Six Museum will be hosting screenings of films from their audiovisual archive as well as live bands and musicians from the area.
At 2pm today there will be a launch of a book of photographs by George Hallett titled District Six revisited.
Speaking at a Heritage Day debate honouring struggle stalwart and late ANC leader Oliver Reginald Tambo last week, Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan said heritage is one of the primary sources of identity, imparting to communities a sense of belonging.
That South Africa is culturally diverse is readily recognised. Less evident is the role that heritage can play in nurturing our national identity. social cohesion, conflict prevention and promoting human secu~ity.
A group of independent experts set up by the directorgeneral of Unesco defined cultural diversity as the manifold ways in which the cultures of social groups and societies find expression.
This suggests that rather than dividing us, cultural diversity is our collective strength, which could benefit the entire world. In this sense, it should be recognised and affirmed as the common heritage of all South Africans. said Jordan.
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