PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS

REPORTING TEMPLATE: Kimberly

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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

Critical stakeholders within arts, culture and heritage sector are:

Private Sector (Businesses, Franchises to support the sector)

Municipalities (Esp Land, infrastructure)

Political Principals (Esp influence on policies that support ACH sector)

Government in general (Development of artist) (e.g. Memorandum

Public (Esp full participation together as artists and the sector)

SETAs

NYDA

SOE (State-owned)

Theatre houses

SARS

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FUTURE STATE/VISION OF ACH SECTOR & CRITICAL VALUES

Future State (Vision)

Fully operating theatre

Arts centres in every wards

Prosperity of all artist

A well informed society about ACH

ACH at school at subject

Position ACH as a model state in SA

Arts and Culture that is economically viable

ACH that consider financial management (Training and Development)

Accessibility of equal funding

Ensuring sustainable Exportation

Inclusivity

Transformed sector to benefit the disadvantaged

Critical Values

Transparency

Integrity

Discipline

Self determination

Validity

Ownership

Proffessionalism

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BROAD CHALLENGES AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

HIGH LEVEL CHALLENGE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

Lack of Emergency Funding Policy to be developed to emergency projects

Lack of dissemination of information by Govt,

Municipalities, organization

Accountability mechanisms to be in place

Exploitation of artist and the absence of the

systems to collate information that would

assist artist

Full Marketing and Branding for artist

Lack of implementation (Money available but

Govt not implementing)

Accountability mechanisms to be in place

Artist not promoted fully (Tourism) Matching Tourism and ACH

Lack of coordination between EPWP and artist Coordination needed to assist local artist

Segmentation / division

Socio-economic marginalization (Local artist

not recognized)

Policies to empower local artists

No ACH facilities funded by National DAC Acknowledgement by National DAC for local

artist (e.g. Conditional Grant)

Failure of Department of Education to provide

unit standards for the Sector

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THEME:ACCESSIBILITY OF ARTS AND

CULTURE & HERITAGE/ SUSTAINABLE

LIVELIHOOD

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CRITICAL CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS

Critical Challenges Relating To Your Theme Proposed Solutions

Institutional Arrangement (Lack of Access to Authorities)

Recognition by Govt and clear policies to access authorities in relation to the ACH Decentralization (Clear Mandate, responsibilities, accountabillity)

PANSALB not promoting official Language accordingly to be accessible

PANSALB to be effective

No equal opportunities (e.g. One artist always appointed) No access to funding

Separation of Arts and Culture from Dept. of Sports in the Province

Corruption (Brown Envelope) Officials become favorable to other artist Inequality by Government

Dept. to have a Departmental Hotmail (Accountability) Provincial department must support local artist (Idols)

PACCs are not independent. They are influenced by Department officials

Marginalization

30 Days payment is a problem for artist to be financially sustainable

Days must be reduced

No recognition by DAC, NAC e.g. MGE to the Northern Cape

DAC, NAC must consider funding Northern Cape ACH

Lack of feedback on the outcomes of the proposals. Therefore it is difficult for planning and Sustainable Livelihood

Speedy feedback by Govt

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Institutional Arrangements And Governance

How should the DAC, its public entities and the sector be organized to achieve the

vision for the sector

• Provincial Arts Councils work closely National Arts Council

• National offices to be hands on at the ground level

• District Councils/municipalities to work closely with Province and National DAC

(e.g. MGE be accessible at district for access)

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Funding within the sector

How should funding for the sector be organised within the DAC and the sector

• Proportional Funding is needed

• DAC to ACH practitioners through SARS with regard to tax incentives (e.g.

Training of how to complete Tax returns)

• SARS should claim not claim too much charges on the payments to the sector

• Department must disseminate educational information and documents

• Use local artists as trainers for local artists

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Infrastructure And Related Matters

How should ACH infrastructure be organized to realize what the sector want to achieve

• Community Arts Centres must be accessible and increased in the Province (Recognition is given to NPOs and not Heritage sector needs)

• Municipalities should provide infrastructures for the sector(Funding required) Especially existing building to be released for the Sector utilization

• Community Arts Centres resourced and maintained

• Multipurpose centers / Community Arts Centres must be conducive to accommodate respective ACH genres with their uniqueness (Every Region)

• Govt must procure existing infrastructures of Private owners for the ACH

• The purpose of the Multipurpose centers / Multipurpose centers must be re-defined accordingly by DAC

• Research must be made on what kind of infrastructures we need for the sector

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Skills Development, Education And Training

What should happen with regards to Skills Development, Education And Training

to realise the essence of the vision and the theme

• Training for the development of proposals for open calls (How do we develop

proposal in order to be successful?)

• Leadership and govt officials around the sector should be educated themselves

• Infrastructures (e.g. Incubators) to be made available for skills development, esp

transfer of skills

• ACH to be given a special attention at schools (Formalisation) by Dept Education

• Equip strategies of restoration of our Heritage Site

• ACH Sector to be professionalized (Unit Standard e.g. SETAs)

• Govt to employ skilled officials to work around the sector

• Artists to equip themselves with the Legalities around the Sector (Acts, Policies)

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Cultural Diplomacy And International Relations

How can cultural diplomacy be used to achieves what the sector and this theme stands for

Foster international agreements that would advance the sector (Exporting of Products)

The media to assist in marketing local products international Exchange

Artists should be made aware of all the existing cultural agreements that the country signed with other countries

Exchange Programmes are important for Skills Transfer and recognition between SA and other countries

Embrace our Diversity, Heritage internationally

Artists must exposed/promoted by Government at a higher level internationally – Travel (E.g. President)

Expose indigenous knowledge internationally

International artist must not only be focusing on Johannesburg – Govt must assist

Cultural Diplomacy must promote local artist

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Research And Development

The relevance of Research And Development in the sector and in

advancing our theme:

Our opinion must not be based on assumptions (Assess the old Market vs

current market (Improvement)

Feasibility study is important to inform decision within the Sector

Research is expensive and funding is needed from Govt to assist

Narrative Story (e.g gcina mhlophe) may be used for researches

DAC must do thorough Researches in order to identify the challenges that

the sector is facing

Cultural Observatory must be visible to the local authorities in order for

disadvantage communities to make their own researches without focusing

on the researches made by the “still” advantaged communities

Outdated Technology must updated

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Languages And Related Matters

How can language matters help progress/achievement within this theme

There is a need for promotion of officials languages including other

additional Language available e.g. XHU KHWE as a matter of priority

We must embrace and pride our langauge (it must start from from home

at early age)

How do we learn or promote “Mandarin” if we are recognize our African

languages?

Academics and Researchers must assist in promotion of our languages

(e.g. Universities)

XHU KHWE must be promoted at Universities

Language is the challenge to target your own consumers (e.g. Marketing

of your Product, including pricing of the product)

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ROLE OF MEDIA BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

• Community must respect and protect the available Infrastructure

• The media to assist in marketing local products international

• Community Radio is a challenge as they do not want to play our local

music (80% must be local music)

• Media treats the Sector in isolation as compared to other sectors

(Good Quality of the work must be exposed by the Media)

• Businesses must have a secured budget to contribute to the sector

• Media to have platform e.g. Webpage for accessing of ACH

activities/events. (There is a new ARTS NOW SA is now available)

• Media must Elevate local content on behalf of the Sector

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THANK YOU

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