Local musicians will receive their royalties this week � COSBOTS
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Shumba Ratshega
This follows a distribution workshop held at Thapong Visual Arts Centre last week Saturday.
The organisation’s communications manager, Tlotlo Kgakatsi, said that it was important for musicians to have gone through the workshop to make them understand the system of collecting and distributing royalities.
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