Artistes warned against piracy

The warning was sounded by Thapong Visual Arts Centre coordinator Reginald Bakwena at the 2014 Thapong Artist of the Year Awards on Thursday.

Bakwena said that he has observed that certain artists who reproduce other people’s works fail to acknowledge the originators of such works. “For instance in the ongoing exhibition (TAYA) there are some very beautiful works, which speak volumes of the artists but the problem is that those are not their original works and they have not acknowledged the owners,” he said.