The Newtown Precinct, which still houses creative institutions such as The Market theatre, the embattled Museum Africa, Bassline and Moving into Dance Mophatong, as well as the Dance Factory and the Newtown Music Factory, has been plunged into darkness
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Nadia Virasamy of Moving into Dance said: “For about a week, someone kindly lent us a generator, but we can’t run it continuously as the petrol is expensive.” The missed proposal is a dance initiative for children with disabilities and, ironically, was denied by the City of Joburg, which is partly to blame for the state of the precinct.
Kim Adams, the admin manager at the Newtown Music Factory, which is an iconic venue housed in a building that is a heritage site, seemed completely deflated as she expressed her frustration about the blackouts.
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