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Arts and Culture
Presidential Creative Industries Task Team: Deputy Minister in Presidency briefing; Enyokeni Cultural Precinct Project forensic investigation
1 Nov 2016
The Presidential Task Team briefed the Committee on the creative industries, saying that the immediate challenges facing artists included coordinating government’s response to concerns of the the creative industry, catalysing and accelerating the creation of a conducive environment for artists to contribute to the economy, job creation and general transformation ...
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Department of Arts and Culture, Market Theatre & Msunduzi/Ncome Museum on their 2015/16 Annual Report
13 Oct 2016
Msunduzi/ Ncome Museum
The Msunduzi/ Ncome Museum is a Schedule 3A public entity established in terms of the Cultural Institutions Act of 1998. The Museum receives institutional transfers from the Department to finance its operations and address its infrastructural needs. The museum has had very exciting programmes ...
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Department of Arts and Culture audit: Auditor General briefing, with Minister present; Nelson Mandela Museum status report
11 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee met with the Auditor General and the Minister to receive feedback on the Department of Arts and Culture’s audit outcomes and its entities. The Committee later met with the Nelson Mandela Museum to discuss the state of affairs at the Museum.
Seven entities received clean audit outcomes, ...
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Meeting with Swedish Delegation
9 Sep 2016
The Committee met on a cultural exchange programme with the Cultural Affairs Committee from the Parliament of Sweden.
The Committee reported that since 1994 when SA became a constitutional democracy the supreme law of the land had become the Constitution such that both Parliament and the Executive were all subject ...
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Social cohesion & nation building; Mvezo Site & Nelson Mandela museum; Infrastructure / Legacy projects; Capital works project challenges: DAC & Public Works
6 Sep 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture briefed the Committee on the Infrastructure Programme and the state of legacy projects and infrastructure and maintenance projects; on social cohesion and nation building strategies; and on the Mvezo site and its relation to the Nelson Mandela Museum. It was also briefed by the ...
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White Paper revision progress & Official Languages Act implementation; Social cohesion and nation building; National Archives: Department of Arts and Culture briefing
30 Aug 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture briefed the Committee on progress with the implementation of the Official Languages Act. It had not achieved 100% compliance during the previous financial year, and had appointed a service provider in July this year to facilitate and intervene at the institutions which had not ...
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South African Roadies Association settlement agreement; Department of Arts and Culture on its 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance
23 Aug 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) updated the Committee on the progress of the settlement agreement between the DAC and the South African Roadies Association (SARA). Although relations between the two were still a little strained, there had been implementation of the agreement to date. SARA had submitted a ...
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PanSALB & Performing Arts Centre of Free State: status report
16 Aug 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture Deputy Director-General of Institutional Governance gave an overview on the status of the Performing Arts Centre of the Free State and where the DAC has intervened.
The Interim CEO of PACOFS gave a presentation on the details of PACOF’s status. PACOFS had received an ...
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South African Roadies Association settlement agreement; Department of Arts and Culture on its 4 Quarter 2015/16 performance
24 May 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) outlined the ongoing issues between the South African Roadies Association and the Department. Although the two organisations were in discussion, the Association was not happy that the DAC was expecting it to handle the issues itself, with support from the DAC, rather than ...
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SA Roadies Association on settlement agreement & challenges; Committee Report on Arts and Culture Budget
3 May 2016
The Committee met to receive briefings from the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) and the South African Roadies Association (SARA) on the settlement agreement, and the challenges which had arisen over its implementation.
SARA said that in the settlement agreement, there were two proposals, and the DAC had failed ...