Strategies for survival at Sibikwa 1988-2021 : landmarks of South African theatre history / commissioned and edited by Phyllis Klotz and Smal Ndaba.

The political is personal : Smal Ndaba and Phyllis Klotz in thumbnail portraits of origins and orientations / Sarah Roberts -- Founding Sibikwa : a professional partnership tempered in the forge of apartheid's final years / Sarah Roberts -- Democracy, the first decade : the Mandela-Mbeki years (1994-2005) / Sarah Roberts -- The trouble with freedom : Mbeki's dream of an African renaissance, nation-building and issues surrounding HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Sarah Roberts -- Issues of governance, policy, delivery, and accountability escalate : Sibikwa responds to developments in arts and culture policy documents and with theatre-in-education projects / Sarah Roberts -- The struggle for social justice in confronting gender-based violence and srategies of intensifying an African cultural heritage as the project moves into the future / Sarah Roberts -- Governance of Sibikwa Arts Centre : a reflection on the agility, progress, and longevity of the organisation / Munyaradzi Chatikobo and Caryn Green -- Sibikwa's educational programmes / Vanessa Bower and Hazel Barnes -- Living proof : thirty years of Sibikwa's theatre productions / Sarah Roberts.

"This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic polity while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations. Sibikwa provides arts centres across the world and especially those in decolonising countries with strategies for survival in tumultuous times. This multi-disciplinary book maps and co-ordinates wider historical, political, and social contextual concerns and events with matters specific to a community-based east of Johannesburg and provides an exploration and analysis by experts of authentic theatre-making and performance, dance, indigenous music, arts in education and NGO governance. It has contemporary significance and raises important questions regarding inclusivity and transformation, the function and future of arts centres, community-based applied arts practices, creativity, and international partnerships. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, indigenous music, dance, and South African history"-- Provided by publisher.