The Department of Arts and Culture

(DAC) programmes – 2011/12

08 FEBRUARY 2011

Ms Veliswa BaduzaActing Director- General

A BRIEF TO THE PORTFOLIO

COMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT

OF ARTS & CULTURE

PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 2011

Outline of the Presentation1. Purpose2. Background4. The DAC Programme Objectives 5. The DAC Key Priorities/Themes 6. The DAC Key Campaigns for 20117. Highlights 8. Challenges 3. The DAC Organogram9. MTEF Allocation 2011/13 – 2013/14 10.Conclusion

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Purpose

• To brief the Committee members on the DAC programme for the year 2011.

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DAC Programmes OBJECTIVES

1. Corporate Services: Provides overall management and centralised support services to departmental core programmes in order to create an enabling environment for the achievement of departmental objectives.

2. Arts and Culture in Society: Promotion of Arts and Culture in South Africa and mainstream its role in social development

3. National Language Services: To develop and promote the official languages of South Africa and enhance linguistic diversity.

4. Cultural Development and International Relations: improve economic and other development opportunities for South Africa Arts and culture, nationally and globally, through mutually beneficial partnerships thereby ensuring sustainability of the sector

5. Heritage Promotion: Develop and monitor the implementation of policy, legislation and strategic programmes for the identification, conservation and promotion of cultural heritage for socio-economic development and social cohesion

6. National Archives and Library Services: To guide, sustain and develop the archival and library and information resources of South Africa so that good governance is supported, socio-economic development is sustained and citizens are empowered through full and open access to these resources

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Key priorities

1. Social Cohesion and Nation Building

2. Skills development

3. Economic development

4. Development, Preservation and Promotion of Arts, Culture and Heritage

5. Preservation for access to information

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Outcomes Agenda

• The Minister of Arts and Culture has signed a Performance Agreement with the President of South Africa which comprises the following Outcomes

- Improved quality of education (Outcome 1)

- Decent employment through inclusive growth path (Outcome 4)

- Vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities and with food security (Outcome 7)

• The DAC has a mandate to lead Outcome12: An efficient, effective and development oriented Public Service led by DPSA and An empowered, fair and inclusive citizenship with the DPSA.

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Outcome 12Outcome 12

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Output 5 Nation Building and National Identity

Sub outputs:

5.1 Campaigns to inform and educate citizens about the Rights

and Responsibilities of South African Constitution

5.2 Celebrating the South African’s Cultural Diversity

Output 6 Citizen Participation

Sub outputs:

6.1 Access to information

6.2 Public awareness about participation

6.3 Institutional design to maximise participation

Output 7 Social Cohesion

Sub outputs:

7.1 Social Capital

Outcome 4Outcome 4

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Output 6 Improved support to small business and cooperatives

Sub outputs:

6.1 Reduced constrains and improved support to SMMEs

Output 7 Expansion of EPWP

Sub outputs:

7.2 Expansion of employment in the social sector

Outcome 7Outcome 7

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Output 3 Improved rural services to support livelihoods

Sub outputs:

3.2 Access to information

3.3 Innovative service delivery models for rural areas available widely

Output 4 Improved employment opportunities and economic livelihoods

Sub outputs:

4.4 Enterprise development services supported (including for SMMEs and Cooperatives)

Key Priority 1: Social Cohesion and Nation Building

• Geographical Name Changes: The South African Geographical Name Council and the DAC will continue with the process of standardizing geographical names and engage the citizens of South Africa on issues of geographical names – A summit will be hosted in collaboration with the provinces to consolidate recommendation from the hearings.

• National days Participation across all nationally to celebrate South Africa’s cultural diversity and to commemorate SA’ history.

• Festivals: Promotion of the Arts, Culture and Heritage (Macufe, Mapungubwe, Port St Johns)

• Conferences: Annual National Oral History and an inclusive Summit on Social Cohesion and Nation Building; National conference on carnivals (SA Carnival Movement).

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Key Priority 1: Social Cohesion and Nation Building - Cont

• Interventions that promote dialogue: Social engagement and community mobilisation campaigns on issues of social cohesion and national building in conjunction with Provinces and other government departments, TrendSetter initiatives in collaboration with National Youth Structures, Izimbizos will be conducted to create platforms to provide information and encourage exchange of views to strengthen interaction and feedback between the department and the arts and culture sector.

• Community Arts Centres, and the Performing Arts Institutions: These serve as a vehicle to social cohesion and nation building. At the same time they provide short-term jobs especially in the technical services, hospitality, security, etc.

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Key Priority 2: Skills Development

• National Skills Academy in the Arts, Culture and Heritage: The Academy will become a “Center of Excellence”, providing a platform for artists to perfect their skills and thus become the best in the world and this will also contribute to the New Growth Path.

• Special Skills:- There will be development and promotion of special skills for

writing and creating regular platforms for publishing. The writers will be trained in play writing programmes.

- Script to screen in the film industry focusing on scrip writing (indigenous story telling and writing especially in rural areas and townships)

- Draft Heritage Human Resources Development strategy to promote skills development in Heritage sector

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Key Priority 2: Skills Development –Cont.

• Bursaries: These will be awarded to undergraduates and postgraduate to promote skills development in the Language profession

• The DAC in partnerships with tertiary institutions will support skills development and transfer in response to EPWP Programmes (mentorship/curatorship partnership programmes –exhibitions of visual arts)

• National Film and Video Foundation (Sediba) have trained 142 script writers, commissioning editors and producers. This project will continue and expand.

• International Cooperation: The DAC will continue to partner with annual international Design Indaba on the emerging creative initiatives to provide platform and opportunities for young creatives across the various design disciplines/sectors to showcase, network and participate in seminars and conferences

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Key Priority 3. Economic Development

The New Growth Path:• The DAC supports the creative industries by developing strategies that

aim to address interventions in the Creative Industries’ value chain for job creation – MIDEM, Moshito, FESPACO, CANNES, Durban International Film Festival

• Industries which are critical in contributing towards job creation are the film, crafts, design, performing arts, books & publishing and technical services. For example, existing projects Thuthuka Jewellery for training apprentice, Fashion Fusion which focused on rural development , investing in culture projects to support job creation.

• The DAC will continue to promote and strengthen South Africa’s arts and cultural participation through the bilateral, multilaterals and trilateral treaties – IBSA; BRICS, Rock Art project, SA-India Week

• The DAC will further contribute on economic development through the upliftment of SMMEs and HDIs with utilisation of database to implement Preferential Procurement goals.

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Key Priority 4: Development, Preservation and Promotion of Arts, Culture and Heritage

• National Liberation Heritage Route: This was launched in 2010. Routes and place were identified. This will create a network of creative sites Nationally and within the region in collaboration with SADC and AU showcasing development of national and Continental Liberation Route

• Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH): An audit on Intangible Cultural Heritage in South Africa will be conducted with the aim of indicating the location and status of ICH in SA and also to develop a register for development and preservation of the ICH.

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Key Priority 5: Preservation for Access to Information

• The National Archives: The National Archives will continue to support and guide records and information management procedures across government to ensure that the records are permanently preserved in the Archives- DAC will build a sustainable Archival Preservation Programme for the National Archives and NFVSA to support National Digitisation Strategy.

• Libraries: Facilitate the establishment of new community libraries (14) and upgrade existing ones (75) through the Conditional Grant - this will also include the establishment of service points (6) for the visually impaired readers.

• Promotion of indigenous languages: Translation and editing of documents into and from all official languages and foreign languages - the South Africa Language Bill is being developed in order to comply with the Constitution which requires the national government to regulate the use of official languages and the South Africa Language Practitioners Bill will provide statutory regulations specifying the qualifying criteria for language professionals and practitioners.

• Digitisation policy: The policy will provide national guidelines on the complex issues of the digitisation of heritage resources and the use of digitisation to improve access to our heritage collections as learning resources.

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DAC Key Campaigns

• Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Matola Raid in Mozambique

• 35th Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising • Cultural Diplomacy Conference• Annual African Women Writers Symposium• National Book Week• Community Mobilisation Campaigns culminating to the National

Summit on Social Cohesion

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Highlights

• DAC received an Unqualified Report for year 2009/2010

• The launch of Anti-Fraud and Corruption Prevention Campaign was held on the 9 December 2010

• Annual Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture• The Third World Festival of Black Arts and Culture in

Senegal• The launch of the Magnificent Friday in collaboration

with Sports and Recreation South Africa

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Challenges

• High vacancy rate: DAC is striving to fill the senior position by the end of the financial year

• The vacancy rate will be kept below 10%• Insufficient budget to provide effective and efficient

service delivery

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DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE

PURPOSE: TO DEVELOP AND PRESERVE SOUTH AFRICAN ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN SUPPORT OF SOCIAL COHESION AND NATION BUILDING.

FUNCTIONS: 1. The rendering of corporate support services.2. The promotion of economic and other developmental opportunities

for South African arts, culture and heritage.3. The development, monitoring and implementation of policy,

legislation and strategic direction for identifying, conserving and promotion of cultural heritage and heraldry

4. The development and promotion of arts and culture and mainstreaming its role in social development

5. The rendering of national archives, language and library services.6. The rendering of assistance and support to the head of the

Department, Minister and Deputy MinisterPOSTS:1 x Director-General

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE:RECOMMENDED OVERALL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE APRIL 2009

BRANCH: ARTS AND CULTURE, IN SOCIETY

BRANCH: NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LANGUAGE

AND LIBRARY SERVICES

BRANCH :ARTS AND CULTURE IN ECONOMIC

EMPOWERMENT

BRANCH: CORPORATE

SERVICES

OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF ARTS AND CULTURE

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF ARTS

AND CULTURE

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

BRANCH: HERITAGE PROMOTION

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MTEF Allocation 2011/12 -2013/14

2011/12 2012/13 2013/14

DAC R2 417 429 R2 562 705 R2 703 654

Programmes 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14

Administration R170 750 R181 618 R191 607

Arts and Culture in Society

R518 929 R568 197 R605 372

National Language Services

R101 170 R108 483 R114 450

Cultural Development and International Relations

R184 872 R192 645 R203 241

Heritage Promotion R203 241 R804 821 R842 799

National Archives and Library Services

R681 987 R706 941 R746 185

Total R2 417 429 R2 562 705 R2 703 654

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Conclusion

• The Committee to note the DAC Key Priorities, highlights and challenges.

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Thank you!Thank you!

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