Zayd Minty is to be posthumously awarded a PhD on Friday at the University of Cape Town. | MarvinCharles_
PhD on Friday at the University of Cape Town. His dissertation was based on urban cultural governance.Minty submitted his doctoral thesis on deadline, just 10 days before he died after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year.
He is one of 19 PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities, where he was based in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. His dissertation was based on urban cultural governance. He was also the director of Creative Cape Town, a programme of the Cape Town Partnership, and later director of the City of Cape Town's Arts and Culture Department. Under his leadership, the City was the country's first municipality to adopt an Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy."We were heartbroken to learn about his passing a mere 10 days after he submitted his thesis for examination," she said.
, is an in-depth longitudinal qualitative study that chronicles Newtown's development as an important cultural centre over several decades.
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