Johannesburg, 4 September 2026 Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) and Canva are partnering to strengthen digital capability across South Africa’s creative economy. The partnership gives creative practitioners and organisations practical design resources, training and a stronger path to sustainable business growth. The partnership sits within BASA’s Value Makers campaign, which recognises the contribution creative…

Johannesburg, 28 August 2026 — Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), in partnership with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), is expanding its support for the creative economy with the launch of the BASA Business Accelerator, a four-month programme designed to help established creative businesses move from proven commercial traction towards investment, procurement opportunities and…

How Evidence Is Rewriting South Africa’s Creative Economy I love the South African Cultural Observatory’s (SACO’s) mapping studies. Call me a research nerd, but there is nothing more satisfying than curling up with a good dose of cultural statistics. But SACO isn’t alone. Over the past decade, a growing body of research has been quietly…