Performing arts council
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The term performing arts council is used in South Africa to a large extent to refer to one of the five state funded organizations founded in 1962 to replace the former National Theatre Organization. They were transformed and/or disbanded after 1994.
They were generally known by their acronyms: CAPAB, NAPAC, PACOFS, PACT and SWAPAC (or KRUIK, NARUK, SUKOVS, TRUK and SWARUK in Afrikaans)
In imitation of these councils, a few urban or regional companies also styled themselves "performing arts councils" in the 1970s and 1980s, e.g. the Eersterus Perfoming Arts Council (EPAC, or Eersterus Raad vir die Uitvoerende Kunste - ERUK)
See Performing Arts Councils for more information
