PRESENTATION OF THE 2011/2012

PROGRAMME OF ACTION AND

BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

FOR VOTE 14 TO THE SELECT

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND

RECREATION

DEPARTMENT OF

ARTS AND CULTURE

8 June 2011

Sibusiso Xaba

Director-General

Outline of the Presentation1. Purpose2. Vision3. The DAC Programme Objectives 4. The DAC Key Priorities/Themes 5. The DAC Key Campaigns for 20116. Mzansi’s Golden Economy7. Highlights and Challenges 8. The DAC Organogram9. MTEF Allocation 2011/13 – 2013/14

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Purpose

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

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To develop and preserve South African culture to ensure social cohesion and nation building

VISION

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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.

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DAC Programmes Objectives Cont’d

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

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Outcomes Agenda

• The Minister of Arts and Culture has signed a Performance Agreement with the President of South Africa and comprises of 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.

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Outcome 12Outcome 12Output 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 African’s 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

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Outcome 7Outcome 7Output 3 Improved rural services to support livelihoods

Sub outputs:

3.2 Access to information

3.3 Innovative service delivery models for rural areas are available widely

Output 4 Improved employment opportunities and economic livelihoods

Sub outputs:

4.4 Enterprise development services supported (including for SMMEs and Cooperatives)

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Outcome 4Outcome 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

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Key priorities

• Social Cohesion and Nation Building• Skills development• Economic development• Development, Preservation and Promotion of Arts,

Culture and Heritage• Preservation for access to information

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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 workshop will be hosted in collaboration with the provinces to consolidate recommendation from the hearings

• National Days: Participation across all nationally to celebrate South Africa’s cultural diversity and to commemorate SA’ history

• Festivals: Promotion of the Arts, Culture and Heritage (Macufe, Maphungubwe, etc.)

• Conferences: Annual National Oral History and an inclusive Summit on Social Cohesion and Nation Building; National conference on carnivals (SA Carnival Movement)

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Key Priority 1: Social Cohesion and Nation Building - Cont’d

• 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, hospitality, and security services.

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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

– 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 (prioritising indigenous story telling and writing especially in rural areas and townships)

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Key Priority 2: Skills Development Cont’d

• Special Skills- Development of the Heritage Human Resources Development

strategy to promote skills development

• Bursaries

- These will be awarded to undergraduates and postgraduate to promote skills development in the Language profession

• The DAC will increase industry initiatives, partnerships and support for skills development and transfer in response to EPWP Programmes (mentorship/curator partnership programmes)

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Key Priority 2: Skills Development Cont’d

• 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 – This to provide platform and opportunities for young

creatives across the various design disciplines/sectors to showcase, network and participate in seminars and conferences

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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, etc.

• Industries which are critical in contributing towards job creation are the film, crafts, design, performing arts, books & publishing and technical services. Existing projects include the Thuthuka Jewellery for training apprentice, Fashion Fusion which focuses on rural development, and investing in culture projects to support job creation

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Key Priority 3: Economic Development Cont’d

The New Growth Path:• The DAC will continue to promote and strengthen South Africa’s

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 through the utilisation of supplier database to implement Preferential Procurement goals

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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

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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

– The 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.

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Key Priority 5: Preservation for Access to Information – cont’d

• 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

– 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

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Mzansi’s Golden Economy

• Contribution of arts, culture and heritage sector to the implementation of the New Growth Path

• Consultative conference on the 14th and 15th of April 2011 first step of the government engagement with key stakeholders

• Conference affirmed the sector as a key ingredient for social stability and economic growth

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Mzansi’s Golden Economy Cont’d

• Key strategic programmes proposed– Education and skills academy– Establishment of a sourcing enterprise– Cultural precincts and events– Information centres– A touring venture– Heritage legacy projects– Public art programme – Art bank– Cultural observatory

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Mzansi’s Golden Economy Cont’d

Key activities for the current financial year

• Establishment of project teams to further develop and refine the proposed strategic programmes

• Develop detailed business plans for each of the strategic programmes

• Develop a funding models for the programmes

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The 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• Samora Machel: To erect a Statue of Samora Machel in

Embuzini, Mpumalanga• Community Mobilisation Campaigns culminating to the

National Summit on Social Cohesion

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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

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Challenges

• High vacancy rate: – DAC is striving to fill all senior positions by the end

of the current financial year– The vacancy rate will be kept below 10%

• Insufficient budget to provide effective and efficient service delivery

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DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE:RECOMMENDED OVERALL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE APRIL 2009

BRANCH: ARTS AND CULTURE, IN SOCIETY

BRANCH: NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LANGUAGE

AND LIBRARY SERVICES

BRANCH :ARTS AND CULTURE IN ECONOMIC

EMPOWERMENT

BRANCH: CORPORATE

SERVICES

OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF ARTS AND CULTURE

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF ARTS

AND CULTURE

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL

BRANCH: HERITAGE PROMOTION

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MTEF Allocation 2011/12 -2013/14

Programmes 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014

Administration 178,757 193,029 206,304

Performing Arts 549,379 606,855 655,850

National Language Services 101,570 105,155 111,125

Cultural Development 180,717 188,516 199,126

Heritage Promotion 763,702 811,627 852,146

National Archives and Library Services 694,452 719,935 760,192

TOTAL 2,468,577 2,625,117 2,784,743

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Summary per Economic Classification

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Economic Classification

2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14

R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000

Compensation 152,907 164,804 174,334 183,714

Goods & Services 220,472 228,096 254,697 271,163

Conditional Grant 512,660 543,420 570,789 602,182

Agencies & Accounts 901,312 861,769 929,533 990,758

Capital Works 413,826 455,613 482,950 509,512

Non Profit Org 11,304 12,258 12,873 13,581

Households 222,186 196,211 193,327 206,854

Capital Assets 6,578 6,406 6,614 6,979

Grand Total 2,441,245 2,468,577 2,625,117 2,784,743

Adjustments to MTEF Allocation

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2010/11

R’000

2011/12

R’000

%

Change2012/13

R’000

%

Change2013/14

R’000

%

Change

Original 2 406 720 2 417 429 0.4% 2 562 705 6% 2 703 654 5.5%

Additions 34 525 66 927 83 142 105 698

Cuts - (15 779) (20 730) (24 609)

Total 2,441,245 2,468,577 1.1% 2,625,117 6.3% 2,784,743 6%

84% (R2,069b)

16% (R399m)

Outside

Within DAC

2011/12: Where funds will be spent

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2011/12: How funds will be spent

22% (R543m)

18.5%(R456m) 34.9%

(R874m)

8.4%(R196m)

9.2%(R228m)

6.7%(R165m)

0.3%(R6m)

Compensation of employees

Goods and Services (includingfunds to be spent oncommemoration andcelebration of National Days)

Households (financialassistance)

Public Entities

Capital Works

Community Libraries

Machinery and equipment

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Earmarked/Ring-fenced Funds

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2011/12

R’000

2012/13

R’000

2013/14

R’000

Investing in Culture 119 019 124 970 131 843

Community Library Services

(Grant)

543 420 570 789 602 182

Community Library Services (National)

7 102 7 528 7 942

PANSALB 56 119 58 938 62 180

Social Cohesion 21 200 22 472 23 708

Capital Works 455 613 482 950 509 512

Bursaries (Heritage) 1 500 3 000 4 500

NFVF (additional allocation) 33 538 42 750 58 930

TOTAL 1 237 511 1 313 397 1 400 797

Allocations to Public Institutions

NAME OF INSTITUTIONBUDGET: 2011/2012

National Arts Council 68 485

National Film and Video Foundation 74 879

Arts Institutions 184 896

PanSalb 56 119

National Heritage Council 47 323

Declared Cultural Institutions (Museums etc.) 323 322

SA Geographical Names Council 7 458

SAHRA 38 526

National Library Services 74 690

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Allocation to DAC Public Institutions Cont’d

Arts Institutions

Artscape 42 332

BASA 6 225

Market Theatre 23 112

Performing Arts Centre of the Free State (PACOFS)

31 092

Playhouse Company 36 138

State Theatre 37 109

Windybrow Theatre 8 888

R’000

184 896

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Declared Cultural Institutions (Museums etc.)

R’000Die Afrikaanse Taalmuseum 4 226 Engelenburg House Art Collection 246 Freedom Park 58 403 Iziko Museums of Cape Town 53 920 Luthuli Museum 6 621 Natal Museum 14 310 National Museum 30 960 Nelson Mandela Museum 16 630 Robben Island Museum 54 980 The National English Literary Museum 7 101 Voortrekker Museum 9 835 War Museum of the Boer Republics 6 737 William Humphreys Art Gallery 4 941 Ditsong Museum 54 411

Total 323 322

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DAC Spending in Provinces

FSR173,833,000

(9%)

GAUR759,333,000

(40%)KZN

R197,347,000(10%)

LIMPR101,372,000

(5%)

MPUR66,885,000

(3%)

NCR139,249,000

(7%)

NW, R70,005,000

(4%)

EC R217,574,000

(11%)

WCR219,432,000

(11%)

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Conclusion

The Committee to note the DAC key priorities, highlights and challenges

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Thank you!Thank you!

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