ACT Awards 2020 winners announced

Local visual artist, Avhashoni Mainganye was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Art category of the Arts and Culture Trust’s (ACT) awards held at venue in Pretoria last week.
The awards are held annually to recognise and celebrate excellence in South African arts, culture and heritage and honour those that have created a lasting legacy within the arts.
The ACT Awards have since 1998 been bestowed upon individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to cultural life in South Africa. In that time, the awards have become ACT’s flagship event.
In spite of the tough economic challenges that faced South Africa in the year 2019, the arts and culture sector of South Africa continued to produce work of a high calibre.
“The Achievement Awards recognise young artists who not only walk in those footsteps of the old but are creating a lasting impression of their own as ImpACT Award Finalists for Young Professionals.
“With the overarching sentiment from the Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients being that artists need to see themselves not only as artists but also as businesses, the ImpACT Award finalists certainly left with a few words of wisdom to inspire them to be the next generation of possible Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients,” a statement issued by the trust read.