Pact, noun
/pækt/
- Forms:
- Also PACT.
- Origin:
- Acronym formed on the initial letters of Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal.
A government-subsidized organization established in the early 1960s to promote the performing arts in the former Transvaal. Also attributive. See also Capab, Napac, Pacofs.
1971 Personality 2 Apr. 35Pier has been in Italy for six years but has been back to South Africa once to join a Pact opera tour of the Northern Transvaal.
1992 C. Du Plessis in Pace Sept. 156He appears regularly in the Sunday Morning Opera Concerts and private soirees organised by Pact. At present he is in rehearsal for Pact’s version of Marriage of Figaro.
A government-subsidized organization established in the early 1960s to promote the performing arts in the former Transvaal. Also attributive.
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