2012 Thapong Awards- bigger and better

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With a P300,000 budget and a membership of close to 700 people, the 2012 Thapong Artist of the Year Awards or TAYA slated for November are expected to be bigger and better.

Already, Mascom has  confirmed they will sponsor the awards and publicity for the event on television through Prime Time show.  Thapong Visual Arts Centre is expected to announce more sponsorship partners for the awards in due course.

This will be the 9th TAYA awards since they were first held in 2004. Thapong Arts Centre's Executive Director, Reginald Bakwena, told Showbiz that entries for the 2012  awards will be released early in October. Mindful of the fact that the 2011 award recorded a resounding success with a 300-strong audience at the ceremony, Bakwena says the bar must be raised higher.

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