Sona 2026 leaves the creative sector behind – The Mail & Guardian

Sona 2026 leaves the creative sector behind – The Mail & Guardian

South Africa’s creative sector went into the State of the Nation address with a clear demand: recognition, reform and rescue. What it received was silence. Just days before President Cyril Ramaphosa took to the podium, hundreds of film and television workers marched under the banner “Save SA Film Jobs”, warning that the industry was in crisis. They gathered outside Parliament and at the department of trade, industry and competition (DTIC), calli…