{"id":5911,"date":"2016-10-17T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzncogta.gov.za\/?p=587"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:47:05","slug":"thousands-turn-up-to-celebrate-african-heritage-at-provincial-beads-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/devtst.kznsshf.gov.za\/kzncogta.gov.za\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/thousands-turn-up-to-celebrate-african-heritage-at-provincial-beads-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands turn up to celebrate african heritage at provincial beads festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5911\" class=\"elementor elementor-5911\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef6fd01 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ef6fd01\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-573762c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"573762c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/devtst.kznsshf.gov.za\/kzncogta.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mmkhize-Feastival-of-beads_031.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9472\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube, Art, Culture, Sport and Recreation MEC Bongi Sithole-Moloi and Member of Parliament Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu joined thousands of community members including Amakhosi, Mayors and business people to witness the Provincial Festival of Beads which took place at the Unit 1 Sports Grounds in the Msunduzi Local Municipality on 15.10.16. In this event rural women who do bead work and traditional dance groups show cased their skills for a total prize of R375 000.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49ad0edf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"49ad0edf\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ba2b85f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4ba2b85f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The township of eMbali in the Msunduzi Municipality was a hive of activity this weekend as thousands of people from across the Province took part in the annual Festival of Beads. This event, which was hosted on Saturday, 17 October, is spearheaded by the department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) under the leadership of MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has benefited over 300 rural women who make the bead work that is displayed during the festival.<\/p><p>According to Dube-Ncube this programme is part of her department\u2019s efforts to support strong local economic development initiatives that are focused on uplifting the lives women in rural communities. \u201cWhen we launched this programme in 2013 we understood that the rural women that make the bead work would get access to bigger markets as we see thousands of people turn up to be part of our main events where we showcase the bead work\u201d said Dube-Ncube.<\/p><p>This year\u2019s event saw 5000 people taking part and winners walking away with R375 000 in cash prizes. These monies will be ploughed straight back into the co-operatives which the winners represent.<\/p><p>The MEC for the Department of Art, Culture, Sports and Recreated who was also in attendance commended the participants who come from as far afield as Zululand to be part of the festivities and showcase their work.<\/p><p>Ends.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube, Art, Culture, Sport and Recreation MEC Bongi Sithole-Moloi and Member of Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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