For the 2011 BASA Awards, Telkom is nominated in the Single Strategic Project enter the Artists of Africa/ SPace Exhibition that was a partnership with Telkom and the City of Johannesburg. This sponsorship showcased African art during the World Cup at an exhibition in Newtown and brought together 25 artists from eight African countries. Telkom used the SPace exhibition to reach out to our customers, employees, key stakeholders and the less fortunate, specifically homeless boys at the Twilight Children’s Centre in Hillbrow, which received a donation of more than R100 000.
This is not the first time that Telkom has been involved in the Awards. In 2006, The Artists in Conversation project a joint venture between the Wits History Workshop and Division of Visual Arts funded by Telkom was nominated for a prestigious BASA Award. Telkom won its first BASA Award in 2007 in the International Sponsorship category for a company bringing an international arts project to South Africa with Telkom sponsoring the Lion King Production. In 2009 we entered our ongoing Art Educational Programmes that have been running since 2002.
