The Department of Arts and Culture

1
A BRIEF TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON THE
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS CULTURE PROGRAMME FOR THE
YEAR 2011

• The Department of Arts and Culture
• (DAC) programmes 2011/12
• 08 FEBRUARY 2011
• Ms Veliswa Baduza
• Acting Director- General

2
Outline of the Presentation

• 1. Purpose
• 2. Background
• 4. The DAC Programme Objectives
• 5. The DAC Key Priorities/Themes
• 6. The DAC Key Campaigns for 2011
• 7. Highlights
• 8. Challenges
• 3. The DAC Organogram
• 9. MTEF Allocation 2011/13 2013/14
• 10.Conclusion

2
3
Purpose

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

3
4
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

4
5
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

5
6
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.

6
7
Outcome 12
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 Africans 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
7
8
Outcome 4
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
8
9
Outcome 7
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)
9
10
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 Africas 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).

10
11
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.

11
12
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

12
13
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

13
14
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 Africas 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.

14
15
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.

15
16
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.

16
17
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

17
18
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

18
19
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

19
20
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE RECOMMENDED
OVERALL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE APRIL 2009
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF ARTS AND
CULTURE
OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF ARTS AND CULTURE

• 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
• The rendering of corporate support services.
• The promotion of economic and other developmental
  opportunities for South African arts, culture and
  heritage.
• The development, monitoring and implementation of
  policy, legislation and strategic direction for
  identifying, conserving and promotion of
  cultural heritage and heraldry
• The development and promotion of arts and
  culture and mainstreaming its role in social
  development
• The rendering of national archives, language and
  library services.
• The rendering of assistance and support to the
  head of the Department, Minister and Deputy
  Minister
• POSTS
• 1 x Director-General

BRANCH NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LANGUAGE AND LIBRARY
SERVICES
BRANCH ARTS AND CULTURE, IN SOCIETY
BRANCH ARTS AND CULTURE IN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
BRANCH HERITAGE PROMOTION
BRANCH CORPORATE SERVICES
20
21
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
21
22
Conclusion

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

22
23
Thank you!
23