PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS
REPORING TEMPLATE: Mafikeng
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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
Critical stakeholders within arts, culture and heritage sector are:
The Market (Audience and cultural products consumers/users)
Arts ,Culture and Heritage Institutions
Museums/Provincial Goegraphic Names Committee/
Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Provincial Arts and Culture Council/
Provincial language Committee
/Northwest Provincial Language Committee/
Northwest Museums Committees/
Management Committees/
Dingaka Traditional Healers
Conservation bodies (sector specific formations)
Private sector Business (for sustainability and investment in the sector)
Media
Education Institutions
Civil Society and Civil Society Representative bodies.
Government Departments (Nationally, Provincially and Locally)
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FUTURE STATE/VISION OF ACH SECTOR & CRITICAL VALUES
Future State (Vision) We want to see a future that is Organised, Creating jobs, Thriving
Take example from other cities of the works (London, New York) look at Tourism ,(Northwest Province should
be the preferred destination) We would like to be the preferred destination for arts and culture
Contributing economically
Driving force in National Building and Social Cohesion Agent of Transformation (for example we want to
transform the landscape of heritage, having ceremonial events especially in rural areas
Have a better future for the arts and culture in 2063 (to something like outreach programmes, so that the
people will know what arts and culture is like so that they do not take arts cheap)
Proper funding model for the ACH.
Looking forward to a sector is not over reliant on government funding (self sufficient). (It would be good for
artists do not have to wait for government to provide support) (this begins to talk to education and training.
Critical Values (Open attitude ) Openness and inclusivity be cognisance of what kind of culture
Repositioned rebranded and renewed sector an agent of reconciled past
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BROAD CHALLENGES AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
HIGH LEVEL CHALLENGE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
Youth unable to access information in relation
to arts and culture/funding and other
opportunities.
Have what we call Village Banks /financial
management and instill the culture of saving in
our artists.
Political instability (lack of political continuity
because new political administration
Arts is not taken seriously / in this regard arts
education is not taken seriously. Black middle
class not going to theatre
DAC can request Dept. Social Development /
DHET/ and other relevant Government to be
engaged
Fragmented nature.
Lack of infrastructure Investment in infrastructure same as Human
skills development
Lack of skills development To first provide development of skills
Dis-jointed funding approach. DAC need to champion the vision and rally all
those who invest in the sector to follow a
framework designed by DAC.
Protection (Archives) We have
institutions/individuals who come to SA and
exploit our heritage to make money overseas
We need to come up with strategies on how
we can tackle these
Foreign actors taking lead roles We to train our local artists with adequate
skills
Preferential procurement of cultural services
and products focused on Gauteng
Mechanisms that will We need to manage the
procurement of cultural products and services
to be fairly distributed nationally.
Communication challenges such as websites We need to improve communication efforts
and interventions
State of Museums in the Mahikeng province is
not good because of lack of funding (The
province is rural and we need to facilitate
awareness educational campaigns)
Same approach like Libraries to get a Grant
from National.
Language is not appreciated/Media is not
promoting the language
Media to promote
Customer Belong (lack of proper monitoring
and evaluation of the local artists that we
have) individuals who get bursaries from De
Beers go back to give back. Yet we give our
kids bursaries but they do not give back they
go to Gauteng
Lets make interventions that when we give
bursaries to young children, they should be
obliged to give back to the community after
completing school.
The issue of anatomy is frustrating policy
implementation at Provincial level because of
issues of misalignment of Departments to the
National Department.(For example at
Provincial level where various sectors are
clustered under one Departments, there is
budget competition which often downplays the
arts and culture.
To undertake interventions to address issues
of this alignment.
Traditional African values are not reflected in
our Laws of our country. How are our values
protected who’s values are these laws
protecting
How do we project Nation building and social
cohesion because it does not only depends on
evens
Learn how to protect our own stories (Winnie
and Mandela was not written by SA National
We should have our stories.
Promote vernacular in our private schools
Who determines what deliverables of the
Province. Monitoring (who do you speak to
when you see mis appropriate activity and
what happens ) Problems of preservations
because of Municipalities not being
cooperative because they do not see the
value in what we are doing.
Challenge how Gov. Dep. work with
Municipalities. In the North West there is
nothing done in terms of preservation. There is
a question of research, (most of the history of
North West was written by colonialist from the
perspective of athropolgy.
Chiefs. They are not taking our arts seriuso
but American come and build private property
on critical heritage sites.We write propospasl
and never get feedback because they are not
being attended to by official.Taung Skull: pay
to go into that venue with benefit for the
community from revenue generated. You get
people who are crafters/but the Department
does not take these people serious especially
crafters who are taking care of heritage craft.
Lack Proper consultation with proper
stakeholders (artists) for example Taung
Cultural Festival. Artists are not consulted
Artists do not have indepent organisations that
represent them. Lack of collaboration and
support from each other. Overseas artists
support each other.
We should encourage our networks to support
each other. E.g utilisation of social media
followings.
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THEME:
PROMOTION, PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF SA ARTS
CULTURE AND HERITAGE
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CRITICAL CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS
Critical Challenges Relating To Your Theme Proposed Solutions
Arts practioners are not paid well for cultural services
and funding allocated to projects is too low.
This breaks the moral the artists and the sector at large.
For example, if mechanism were
developed to address and eliminate the
business culture of “Tenderpreneurs” were eliminated then artists would thrive
Our groups are not registered as NPOs and NGOs
Develop a system that will register arts
groups to register artists and groups in
the sector.
Lack of audience Black middle class not going to theatre
Audience development
Community has bad perceptions about arts Education to promote awareness
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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
• Accountability is a huge issue.
• There are varying interpretations of the meaning of Institutional Arrangements and Governance.
• ACT that are governing the sector need to be implemented. Mabana Arts Centre being governed by an ACT (e,g. Cultural Institutions ACT like Market Theatre and by National Government.)
• We should look at it broadly, starts with the Department Nationally to a ward in the local community-how we are structured.
• The structural mapping of the current White Paper comprised of National NAC, Provincial Arts Council).Therefore we need to evaluate the current White PAPER
• National, Provincial and Local are custodians of the Policy.
• Other organisations such as Mabanas’ are educations Institutions
• The formation of CCIFSA was to say that artists should organise themselves independently
• We want arms length
• It is the artists who should initiate structures like CCIFSA. These structures should be able to control for example foreign film makers taking advantage of local
• Business in the sector: How does Government assist for artists to be able to make business. Government should address or create an environment that enables HHP to stay in Mahikeng.
• Promote indepent artists who will be able to express ideas independently and freely and for example challenge power without prejudice. This way we would be enabling social cohesion.
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Funding within the sector
How should funding for the sector be organised within the DAC and the sector
• It would appear that resources are available but the problem is the officials as they
already know who they will be funding and repeat funding the same groups. There
is a need to be structures which will facilitate monitoring on the disbursement of
funding.
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Infrastructure And Related Matters
How should ACH infrastructure be organized to realize the essence of this theme
• Soft infrastructure
• Community Arts Centres that are well thought out.
• Bricks and mortar that has got programmes running inside and are well funded. This
way we create job creation
• Other Departments should be involved like DoE where they can run programmes in
the CAC’’
• Maintaining existing infrastructure.
• Use technology in a meaningful way to filter down from the top to bottom.
• Access to the internet has been declared as a basic human need and therefore the
DAC should engage with other departments to advocate for arts and culture in
relation to access to technology.
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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 this theme
• Arts education needs to be integrated in the conventional education system
• There needs to be bursaries that are disbursed but also retaining the skills back into the sector in particular locally to plough back.
• Need to monitor how arts centres are working.
– On par locally and international
– Accountability locally and National
• Syllabus
• Education and training should be provided to the community to know about the sector (Policies/Funding/Processes/How government functions).This will empower better participation on the part of the communication.
• Look at working with the SETAs on issues Quality assurance and leveraging on funding.
• SA has its own content and styles that have been innovated by artists such as Gibson Kente however they are not acknowledged. Tylor Perry is another example in the USA that can be looked as a benchmark and locally we have some like Casper Nyovest, HHP Chana that can be engaged to share how they have made these possible
• PALAMA (new intakes in Government will undergo Bathopele process.) In the arts we need to have a programme similar to a Bathopele which will help participants have a better grasp of the issues on the sector
• Training in Copy Rights Law and issues related to IP.
• Solutions for artist in Mahikeng, Bop studios should be open and be made easily available for artists to utelise.
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Cultural Diplomacy And International Relations
What is our understanding of cultural diplomacy
Artists need to mobilise enough power to lobby government to appropriate sufficient funds, see meaning out of the policies.
Promotion (how do we relate to our foreign policy)
How do we package our culture and sell it internationally
How do we advance tourism
Role of the artist in relation to identity (What South Africans are)? The artists can be valuable in this regard.
Need more international related cultural events like for example , indeigenous games.
Add on to Olympics, we need to add indigenous games and the international community should learn these games.
We need to change perceptions
How can cultural diplomacy be used to achieves what this theme stands for
Incorporate traditional methods that deal with Global issues, such as saving water, storing water etc
Usually when the State goes out to the world the President engages with primary sectors. We need the delegations accompanying the president to include artists.
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Research And Development
The relevance of Research And Development in our three is:
Produces data that facilitates proper planning.
How can Research And Development assist in our theme
Need to conduct correct and appropriate research which takes into consideration
the South African context. E,g the History lessons and customary law
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Languages And Related Matters
How can language matters help progress/achievement within this theme
Government “practicing what we preach”.
Challenges to accessibility to Centres/Museums/Infrastructure where
population cannot access because of language.
South African Languages are not appreciated and Media is not promoting
the languages.
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• Role Of Business – The role of business should include CIS.
– Business should be engaged to contribute through their CIS to the development of arts
and culture
– We need to develop a business case (massify/make sure that people attend theatre
shows, by tickets).Its about numbers that makes business case, mobilise numbers,
produce quality products.
• Media – Apply to change the perception of the sector, project it as a serious trade.
– To be mobilised for the promotions of South African languages.
• Role of Society – Is it fair for society when there is no water for them to burn the Library
– A society that turns its back on its arts it turns its back to itself
– Pride in our culture and products. Defending our things.
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Monitoring And Evaluation
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THANK YOU
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