Partners

Drama for Life (DFL) works in partnership with a number of respected and established organisations:

Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) is an internationally recognised South African development agency which encourages mutually beneficial partnerships between business and the arts, incorporating one into the other to drive commercial success and increase corporate sector funding. Founded in 1997 as a joint initiative of government and the business sector to ensure the development of the arts industry in South Africa, BASA is today a Section 21 company, accountable to both government and its business members.

PO Box: 42865, Fordsburg, Johannesburg, 2033; Tel.: 0 11 832 3039; Fax: 0 11 832 3040; Email: info@basa.co.za; Email: www.basa.co.za/

The Drama for Life programme’s establishment and official first year has been funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), formally GTZ. The funding included 28 scholarships awarded to mature postgraduate scholars from nine different African countries. GIZ is an international co-operation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. It promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

PO Box: 12732, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa; Tel.: 0 12 3420181; Fax: 0 12 3420185; Email: gtz-suedafrika@gtz.de; Website: www.gtz.de/en/aktuell/598.htm

Drama for Life gets cultural support from the Goethe-Institut in the form of networking opportunities, shows, library and information facilities, free exhibitions, seminars, guest speakers, conferences and general services to Drama for Life scholars. The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. It promotes knowledge of the German language abroad and fosters international cultural co-operation. The institute conveys a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on Germany’s cultural, social and political life.

PO Box: Private Bag X18, Parkview 2122, Johannesburg, South Africa; Tel.: 0 11 4423232; Fax: 0 11 4423738; Email: info@johannesburg.goethe.org; Website: www.goethe.de/johannesburg

DFL is dedicated to research, the publication of research, and the sharing of research and all related knowledge through a DFL Resource Centre and other forms of knowledge sharing in Africa. DFL’s work in research is supported by National Research Foundation (NRF), which is the government’s national agency responsible for promoting and supporting basic and applied research as well as innovation. The NRF upholds excellence in its investments in knowledge, people, products and infrastructure. It provides services and grants to support research and postgraduate research training vital to the development of South Africa. It is the NRF’s vision to be a key instrument in the creation of an innovative, knowledge-driven society where all citizens are empowered to contribute to a globally competitive and prosperous country. The organisation was established in 1999 as a result of the NRF Act.

PO Box: 2600, Pretoria 0001, South Africa; Tel.: +27 12 481 4000 / 4001; Fax: 0 12 349 1179; Email: info@nrf.ac.za; Website: www.nrf.ac.za/

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) was launched in 2003 by then-United States’ president, George W. Bush. The programme initially aimed to provide antiretroviral treatment (ART) to 2-million HIV-infected people in resource-limited settings, to prevent 7-million new infections and to provide support and care for 10-million people (the “2–7–10 goals”) by 2010. The Pepfar programme has been called the largest health initiative ever initiated by one country to address a disease. The response to Pepfar has been largely positive. The massive funding increases have made anti-retrovirals widely available, saving millions of lives.  A 2009 study found that the programme had reduced the death rate due to AIDS in the countries involved by 10%. Drama for Life (DFL) partners with Pepfar through the University of California’s Art Global Health Center’s Make Art Stop Aids Project, which is under the leadership of Professor David Gere. Drama for Life’s partnership with Pepfar makes it possible to take the Drama for Life Festival to other communities outside Johannesburg in 2010. The DFL festivals will be held in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

PO Box: 9536, Pretoria 0001, South Africa; Tel.: 0 12 431-4209; Fax number: 0 12 342-6167; Email: southafricapepfar@state.gov; Website: www.southafrica.usembassy.gov/pepfar.html

Drama for Life is hosted by the Division of Dramatic Art, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand. The Drama for Life Africa Office is situated within the Division, which provides learning spaces and all technical support to the programme. The Drama for Life programme is well positioned to advance the Wits 2010 Strategic Plan and to establish its position as the leading African University with a rigorous research culture. The DFL programme is committed to developing continent-wide strategic partnerships that will make Wits an active, committed, creative, innovative force that advances the public good. The programme is already attracting outstanding individuals in the field.

PO Box: Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa; Tel.: 0 11 717 1000; Email: webmaster@wits.ac.za; Website: www.web.wits.ac.za/

Founded in 1829, UCT has a proud tradition of academic excellence and effecting social change and development through its pioneering scholarship, faculty and students. It is also renowned for its striking beauty, with its campus located at the foot of Table Mountain’s Devil’s Peak, with panoramic views of much of Cape Town. Its staff and students come from over 100 countries in Africa and the rest of the world. The university has also built links, partnerships and exchange agreements with leading African and international institutions that further enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of our campus. UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting point between South Africa, the rest of Africa and the world.

PO Box: Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; Tel.: 021 650 9111; Website: www.uct.ac.za/

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) was formed on 1st January 2004 as a result of the merger between the University of Durban-Westville and the University of Natal. The new University brought together the rich histories of both former universities which encompass disadvantage and advantage respectively. The two KwaZulu-Natal universities were among the first set of institutions to be merged in 2004 as part of government’s reform aimed at reconfiguring and restructuring higher education. The resulting merged institution is a large and complex contact university.

PO Box: Private Bag X03 Ashwood 3605; Tel.: 031 260 1111; Email: enquiries@ukzn.ac.za; Website: www.ukzn.ac.za/