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Department of Arts and Culture

CONTENTS. INTRODUCTIONINTERACTION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISMPRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SKILLS DEVELOPMENTPROMOTION OF SOUTH AFRICA'S NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGEASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO PROVINCES AND DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES IN PRESE

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Department of Arts and Culture

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    1. Department of Arts and Culture

    2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INTERACTION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO PROVINCES AND DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES IN PRESERVING AND PROMOTING HERITAGE AND CULTURAL TOURISM CONCLUSION DAC Department of Arts and Culture NDT National Department of Tourism SAHRA South African Heritage Resources Agency

    3. 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The work of the Department of Arts and Culture and Tourism is interrelated. 1.2 Whilst the DAC facilitates the preservation and development of Artistic, Cultural and Heritage products, the Department of Tourism facilitates their marketing for both domestic and international tourism. 1.3 The interdependency and the intersection of the work of both departments necessitates a partnership.

    4. 2. INTERACTION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM 2.1 Due to the importance of culture in the tourism industry, DAC and NDT are working together in mainstreaming culture in tourism activities . 2.2 The department of Arts and Culture has participated in the workshops that were designed to develop a five year Heritage and Cultural Tourism Strategy. 2.3 The Strategy details the variety of interventions necessary to engender synergies between Heritage and Cultural Tourism 2.4 A Memorandum of Understanding has also been drafted by the two departments, however due to intense consultation in the Department of Arts and Culture, the MOU is still not signed. 2.5 A Steering Committee has also been established in order to facilitate the finalization of the MOU and to develop joint programs thereafter.

    5. 3. PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 3.1 The core business of the Department of Arts and Culture is to preserve, protect and promote our cultural heritage. 3.2 As a result, the DAC has developed policies and legislative frameworks to achieve this objective. 3.3 Through these legislative frameworks, we have established institutions/agencies in various parts of the country to fulfil the mandate. 3.4 These agencies are mandated to identifying vast cultural properties in their various forms: movable and immovable; tangible and intangible. 3.5 The process of identification empowers us to conserve and protect our cultural heritage. 3.6 It also empowers us to develop relevant strategies to promote our monuments, memorials, museums, heritage sites and our living heritage.

    6. 3. PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE (cont-)

    7. 4. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 4.1. The protection, preservation and promotion of heritage is dependent on people who have the requisite skills to ensure best practice guidelines are adhered to. 4.2 Skills and Human Resource Development assist the sector to keep abreast with new technological developments and other global developmental trends. 4.3 The Sustainability of any government, state or sector is entirely depended on its skills base. 4.4 It is against this background that the DAC embarked upon the heritage skills audit to produce a Heritage Human Resource Development Strategy. 4.5 This was designed to identify scarce skills in the sector and to find ways of producing and retaining those skills.

    8. 4. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT(cont-) 4.6 Critical, scarce and priority skills showed shortages and gaps in conservation, collection management, archaeology and heritage management. 4.7 As part of the implementation of the strategy, the Department of Arts and Culture introduced a bursaries programme to assist students to study in any field related to Heritage and Cultural Tourism. 4.8 In 2011 (31) Bursaries were awarded to deserving students to serve in the fields of Archaeology, Museology, Curatorship, Anthropology, Heritage and Cultural Tourism. 4.9 In 2012 (71) Bursaries were awarded in the above mentioned fields of study.

    9. 4. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT(cont-)

    10. 5. PROMOTION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE

    11. 5. PROMOTION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE (cont-)

    12. 6. ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO PROVINCES AND DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES IN PRESERVING AND PROMOTING HERITAGE AND CULTURAL TOURISM 6.1 The provision of Cultural Heritage infrastructure in the form of museums, monuments, memorials and theatres cuts across the three spheres of Government. 6.2 Similarly, the support of crafts, exhibitions and festivals is spread throughout all the spheres of government. 6.3 Existing programmes as well as those envisaged by the Department are implemented at national, provincial and local spheres. 6.4 This is testament to the role the Department plays at provincial and local levels.

    13. 6. ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO PROVINCES AND DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES IN PRESERVING AND PROMOTING HERITAGE AND CULTURAL TOURISM (Cont.)

    14. 7. CONCLUSION

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