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Department of Arts and Culture on 2015/16 3rd Quarter performance
23 Feb 2016
The Deparment of Arts and Culture briefed the Committee on its Third Quarter Performance Report for 2015/16. Members were informed that the presentation was only a summary of the actual Third Quarter Report. The DAC would provide the Committee with more specific performance information at a later stage. The DAC ...
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Department of Arts and Culture on dissolution of PanSALB Board and way forward; Department of Arts and Culture on Community Art Centres & Windybrow Theatre
16 Feb 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) briefed the Committee on the current status, legal challenges and way forward for the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). It was noted that the dissolution of the Pan South African Language Board resulted from numerous and long standing periods of crisis on ...
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Closure of Reconciliation Bridge and road in Pretoria and Ncome: Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park, Msunduzi Museum and DAC briefing; Status and future of Ncome Museum: DAC briefing
2 Feb 2016
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) , the Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park, and the Msunduzi Museum on the issues that these museums faced, and especially on the closure of the Reconciliation Bridge and Reconciliation Road in Ncome and Pretoria respectively. The Road had been ...
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Key outstanding issues: committee staff briefing; First Term Committee Programme
26 Jan 2016
The Committee agreed that it had to re-evaluate the work that it had already done in order to identify what it still needed to do in 2016. The intention was to make the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) accountable to the Committee. There were issues that remained outstanding from ...
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South African Roadies Association settlement agreement; Performing Arts Centre of Free State on its 2014/15 Annual Report; Heritage Assets: GRAP compliance
27 Oct 2015
The Chairperson expressed her displeasure at the outset with the fact that many of the Department's reports had been inaccurate or misleading, and the Committee was not pleased when an official sought to explain this and suggested that perhaps the Department should be told in advance of meetings if its ...
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Department of Arts and Culture, Robben Island Museum & Iziko Museum on their 2014/2015 Annual Report; Audit outcomes by Auditor-General
13 Oct 2015
The Office of the Auditor General South Africa firstly presented the Committee with the audit outcomes of the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and its entities. The presentation reviewed the audit outcomes over the past three years, and noted that in the financial year 2014/15, audit outcomes of the ...
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State of Archives in South Africa: Archival Platform briefing; Use of Official Languages Act implementation: Department briefing
1 Sep 2015
The Committee was briefed on the settlement agreement between Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and the South African Roadies Association (SARA), the state of the archives in the country, and progress in the implementation of the Use of Official Languages Act.
The Department said that three issues were hindering ...
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South African Roadies Association settlement agreement; Department of Arts & Culture 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
11 Aug 2015
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) briefed the Committee on its first quarter expenditure report and on the status of the settlement agreement between the DAC and the South African Roadies Association (SARA). The Chairperson also welcomed a request from the South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) to brief ...
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Arts, Culture & Heritage sector funding: National Lotteries Board briefing; Department of Arts & Culture on its Youth Activities; PanSALB Chairperson
9 Jun 2015
The National Lotteries Board (NLB) briefed the Committee on the funding of the arts, culture and heritage sector. The budget allocation for the sector had been reduced from 27% to 23%. The main issues and challenges highlighted by the NLB were those of backlogs, the complexity of project proposals sent ...
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Business and Arts on 2015 strategic plan; Ifa Lethu Foundation plans & performance 2005 to 2015
2 Jun 2015
The Ifa Lethu Foundation briefed the Committee, noting that it was set up in 2005, with support from the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) as a developmental organisation, and it supported entrepreneurship, believing that the arts and culture sector could be a catalyst to economic development. Seed funding had ...