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Liberation Heritage Route: Progress and Way Forward

This presentation provides an overview of the Liberation Heritage Route concept and the progress made in its implementation since the Cabinet resolution in 2011. It includes information on the conceptual framework, pilot projects in each province, and the way forward for the project.

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Liberation Heritage Route: Progress and Way Forward

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  1. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE BRIEFINGLIBERATION HERITAGE ROUTE Presentation by Mr. Vusithemba Ndima

  2. CONTENT • Liberation Heritage Route Concept • 11 June 2011 Cabinet Resolution • Progress on the implementation of the resolution • Conceptual Framework • Pilot Projects per Province • Way Forward 2 22

  3. ACRONYMS LHR – Liberation Heritage Route DAC – Department of Arts and Culture NHC – National Heritage Council IMC – Inter Ministerial Committee SADET – South African Democratic Education Trust OAU – Organisation of African Unity SADC – Southern African Development Community FEDSAW – Federation of South African Women ANCWL – African National Congress Women’s League CPSA – Communist Party of South African PAC – Pan Africanist Congress SACTU - South African Congress of Trade Unions SACP – South African Communist Party MK – Mkhonto We Sizwe SAHRA – South African Heritage Resource Agency SANNC – South African Native National Congress 33 3

  4. 1. LIBERATION HERITAGE ROUTE CONCEPT 1.1 The LHR is configured as a network of heritage sites, some nodes with world heritage status, others with national, provincial and local significance. 1.2 The LHR sites will recognize people, communities, icons, places/sites and record epoch-making stories and events which had a significant impact on the South African anticolonial struggle and struggle for liberation. 1.3 The Route will provide a storyline about the movement and continuity of anti-colonial wars and liberation activities, the dialogue across the country and trans-boundary co-ordination of the national liberation struggle. 1.4 The LHR project was approved by Cabinet on 11 June 2011. 44 4

  5. 2. CABINET RESOLUTION 2.1 The DAC/NHC develops a conceptual framework which the LHR will be an integral element thereof. The framework was to be based on existing historical and cultural research. 2.2 The Minister of Arts and Culture must convene an Inter- Ministerial Committee consisting of Ministers of Science and Technology, Basic Education, Public Works, Tourism and Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs. 2.3 The IMC must consider a pilot project which must put emphasis on establishing a strategy to deal with infrastructure and the development of heritage tourism facilities as one of the main focus areas for the strategy. 55 5

  6. 3. PROGRESS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CABINET RESOLUTION 3.1 The conceptual framework based on existing historical and cultural research has been developed; 3.2 Three pilot projects per province have been identified through consultations with the provincial departments charged with heritage matters; 3.3 The identified sites in all provinces include mega sites, large sites and sites which will be developed at a smaller scale; 3.4 A Business Plan has been developed containing all programmes including the infrastructural development aspects; 3.5 The Business Plan contains strategies on the development of heritage tourism facilities; 3.6 The development of the Business Plan included two inter-provincial consultative meetings and a DAC convened Task Team making inputs on all the key aspects of the document; 3.7 The Business Plan was presented to the Technical Committee comprising HODs of Provincial Arts and Culture Departments. 66

  7. 3. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 3.8 The conceptual framework and the Business Plan was also presented to the Ministry and the Ministry resolved that the research is on going and therefore the DAC enters into formal agreement with SADET to provide the research component to the LHR, SADET finalises the conceptual framework, the Task Team be guided by the conceptual framework to finalise the Business Plan and the final Business Plan should have short term and long term budgetary provisions 3.9 The Ministry further resolved that the Task Team should identify an implementation framework which could include a Provincial Route Approach Selection of Anchor sites, based on their significance and potential to attract tourists, to be connected to identified national, provincial and local sites. Emphasis should placed on the need to capacitate provinces that have not had a fair share of national heritage facilities 3.10 Such a framework could also include a Big Bang Approach A single project that maps and interprets all the epochs of the South African liberation struggle identified in the conceptual framework of the LHR. This facility will be a multi-purpose interpretative centre that provides interactive exhibition spaces that enable to relive the liberation struggle. The Big Bang Approach will be explored in North West Province and the OR TAMBO ESCAPE ROUTE was recommended 3.11 The framework could further include a Thematic Approach where site identification can be guided by a common liberation thread that unites Provinces. The theme that has been agreed upon is the declaration of graves to honour the liberation leaders of the liberation struggle. This approach will entail the identification and record of graves of the liberation struggle and the construction of memorials associated with the graves. The aim is to identify one grave per province that will form part of the project 77

  8. 4. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 4.1 The conceptual framework was developed Democratic Education Trust (SADET) based on six completed and published volumes on the history of the resistance movement and liberation struggle in South Africa; 4.2 The conceptual framework lists the purpose and rationale for the LHR and its monuments and sites as recognition, commemoration and celebration of liberation heritage and to educate humanity about the impact of colonialism and oppression; 4.3 The framework provides for the LHR to be underpinned by the principles of redress, freedom, equality, peace, democracy, human and social rights, internationalism and the quest to understand humanity and the human condition; 4.4 The framework recognises globally the role of international solidarity, continentally acknowledges the role of the African Diaspora and the OAU and proposes recognition of the role of SADC through intertwining youth pilgrimages to SADC countries 88

  9. 4. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (Cont) 4.5 The conceptual framework locates the LHR within the pre-colonial context which is defined as the period 1450 -1650 in which Europe explored the so-called unknown world, including Africa, the Era of the Scramble for Africa 4.6 The framework further loacates the route in the Colonial Context in the period 1651 -1910 characterised by resistance to the settlers by the Khoekhoe in and around the Peninsula, resistance and anti-colonial struggles in the Eastern Cape and the region of KwaZulu-Natal, anti-colonial struggle in the interior including King Sekhukhune of the Pedi against the Boers who had invaded his kingdom and resistance in Dinokana/Zeerust against the Boers over land ownership. 4.7 Politically it locates the route within the context of resistance by the ANC at the turn of the 20th century, the influence of the de-colonisation of Africa, the role of African intellectuals and the formalisation of political movements. 4.8 The framework locates the route within the diaspora context through emphasising the role of fellow Africans through various forums such as the Pan-African Conference and the OAU. 4.9 In the human rights context the framework emphasises the role of the African Bill of Rights by the ANC in 1923, the formation of the ANCYL in 1944, the Defiance Campaign conducted by SAINC and the ANC in 1923 and the Women’s march to the Union Building in 1956. 99

  10. 4. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (Cont) 4.10 The framework highlights the Gender and Liberation Context by looking at the role of Women’s liberation formations like FEDSAW, ANCWL, the worker’s struggle as an important facet of the liberation struggle such worker’s resistance in the mines, the role of organisations like CPSA, PAC, SACTU, SACP and MK 4.11 In the Rural and Peasant Context the framework looks at Rural resistance which sparked in the 1940s and culminated in major uprisings in Zeerust, Sekhukhuniland and Pondoland. 4.12 In all the above contexts the framework links the liberation heritage route to anticolonial and liberation struggle people, events, places and personalities. 1010

  11. GAUTENG • Tot • R…….. 1111

  12. GAUTENG 1212

  13. GAUTENG 1313

  14. MPUMALANGA 1414

  15. MPUMALANGA 1515

  16. MPUMALANGA 1616

  17. EASTERN CAPE 1717

  18. EASTERN CAPE 1818

  19. EASTERN CAPE 1919

  20. WESTERN CAPE 2020

  21. WESTERN CAPE 2121

  22. FREE-STATE 2222

  23. FREE-STATE 2323

  24. FREE-STATE 2424

  25. NORTHERN CAPE 2525

  26. NORTHERN CAPE 2626

  27. NORTHERN CAPE 2727

  28. LIMPOPO 2828

  29. LIMPOPO 2929

  30. LIMPOPO 3030

  31. KWAZULU-NATAL 3131

  32. KWAZULU-NATAL 3232

  33. KWAZULU-NATAL 3333

  34. NORTH-WEST 3434

  35. NORTH-WEST 3535

  36. NORTH-WEST 3636

  37. 5. WAY FORWARD 5.1 The projects will be presented to the IMC for its consideration. 5.2 Once the IMC has applied its mind and presented to cabinet detailed implementation plans will be developed. 3737

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