1. PRESENTATION OF THE REVISED WHITE PAPER ON ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON A&C
Presented by Department of Arts and Culture
Date: 04 December 2018

2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION RATIONALE objectives
Vision, MISSION AND PRINCIPLES
SCOPE OF PROPOSED POLICIES
PROPOSED NEW DISPENSATION
Funding policies and incentive
IMPACT ON THE SECTOR
Constitutional Implications
IMPLEMENTATION
Recommendation

3. 1. INTRODUCTION
On 4 November 2015 the Minister of Arts and Culture appointed an eight-person Reference Panel for the Revision of the White Paper on Arts. Culture and Heritage which was subsequently extended with an additional member to ensure that the team was broadly representative and inclusive.
A First Draft was completed in October 2016 for internal circulation, comments and inputs by DAC management. The inputs were processed and incorporated into the Second Draft in November 2016 to be tabled at the National Indaba on 17 and 18 November 2016.
The Third Draft was completed on 28 February 2017 and incorporated the input for National Indaba. Additional submissions made between January and September 2017 and were incorporated in the Fourth draft in October 2017.
This was followed by the Socioeconomic Impact Assessment (SEIAS) conducted by the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) which was completed in March 2018 and a Final Certificate was issued by the Department of Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME)
The Revised White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage was approved by Cabinet and subsequently tabled in Parliament on 12 October 2018.

4. 2. RATIONALE FOR THE POLICY REVISION
To consolidate the democratic dispensation established for the sector in 1996 and to reposition it to effectively accelerate transformation by addressing shortcomings and integrating it into national policies and strategies for artistic, cultural, social and economic development

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3. objectives
Basing the policy on the fundamental right to culture, artistic creativity, language, and intellectual and artistic freedom as enshrined in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution;
Integrating the National Development Plan ,the National Strategy for Nation-Building and Social Cohesion and African Knowledge Systems in policies for the sector;
Harnessing the sector’s creative, innovative, educational and social development practices with the economic capacities for transforming South Africa into an inclusive society;
Proposing more flexible funding and financing models for the sector; and
Reconfiguring the existing art, culture and heritage dispensation and policies underpinning it to eliminate duplications for optimal performance.

6. 4. Vision, MISSION AND PRINCIPLES
A creative and inclusive nation
Mission
 Develop, preserve, protect and promote arts, culture and heritage
Principles
This draft policy is informed by and based on a range of enabling and principles, including: Openness; Participation; Accountability; Sovereignty; Right to Art, Culture and Heritage; Freedom of Expression; Access to Information; Transformation; Decolonisation; Diversity; Sustainable Development; International Solidarity and Cooperation; Inclusion; Empowerment; Peer Reviewing; Multilingualism; Nation-building; Social Cohesion; Ubuntu; Social justice: Good Governance and Accountability.

7. 5. SCOPE OF PROPOSED POLICES
The proposed policies are informed by intrinsic artistic, cultural and heritage values as well as the instrumental social and economic values of the sector to include, inherent Value; Creative Value; Social Value; Economic Value; Educational Value Recreational Value, Therapeutic Value; and Environmental Value.
New Policies cover, the Performing Arts, consisting of Theatre, Dance and Music; Visual Arts, Craft and Design; Audio-Visual and Digital Media; Cultural and Creative Industries; Language, Literature and Publishing, Public Libraries and Information Services
It also deals with Heritage which includes Museums, Heritage Resources, Monuments, Heritage Sites and Statues; Geographical Place Names; Heraldry and Symbols; Archives; and Libraries and Information Services, Technical Skills Development and Events Management as well as Community, Arts, Culture and Heritage, Cultural and Creative Industries.
It further provide policies for Education and Training, Management and Administration, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Cultural Diplomacy and International Cooperation; Social Status and Economic Right; and Artists, Cultural and Heritage Practitioners. 


8. 6. PROPOSED NEW DISPENSATION
SOUTH AFRICNA NATIONAL ART AND AUDIOVISUAL COUNCIL
Performing Arts, Visual Art, Craft and Design, Creative Writing and Audio-visual Development
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL HERITAGE COUNCIL
Museums, Monuments, Heritage Resource and Sites, Geographical Place Names, Heraldry, Archives, Libraries and Information Services
ADDITIONAL CLUSTERS FOR EXISTING NATIONAL MUSEUMS IN PROVINCES
It is proposed that national heritage institutions in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape be consolidated and that all national museum councils be abolished, and that national museums be governed by the National Heritage Council..
SOUTH AFRICAN BOOK AND PUBLISHING DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Constituted by one representative each from publishing, printing, book trade, authors, editors, translators and Basic Education, Higher Education, Small Business Development
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL ACADEMANY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EVENTS MANAGEMENT
To develop professional training in Sound, Lighting, Stage, Power, Audio-visual, Rigging, Recording and Production Skills. 
SOUTH AFRICAN CENTRE FOR AFICAN ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE
 FUNCTIONS TO INCLUDE PROJECT, EVALUATION AND FUNDING, POLICY ADVICE, MONITORING AND SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

9. 7. funding policies AND INCENTIVES
A range of funding modalities, including, Grant Funding, A Creative and Cultural Industries Fund, Debt Finance and Equity Finance, are proposed. These are supplemented by:  
A catalyst fund: in partnership with the private sector to facilitate investment via public and private loans or seed funding;
A regional fund: for trade in the African region;
An investment fund: in partnership with the private sector to enable equity investments.
Accelerators: Expert advice, mentoring, practical and technical support to groups of new ventures.
Incubators: Provide co-working spaces so that cultural and creative entrepreneurs to develop concepts into commercial projects.
Collaboration with the relevant departments when funding is channelled through other government departments and to ensure the development objectives as set out by the DAC are still met. 

Incentives for Business Support :The need to address one of the barriers to greater private sector funding in Section 18A and the Ninth Schedule in Section 30 of the Income Tax Act of 1962, which permits tax deductions for corporate funding for public benefit organisations, in social welfare, health care, conservation, environmental and animal care as well as land and housing but excludes arts, culture and heritage calls for motivated submission to amend this. .

10. 8. IMPACT ON THE SECTOR
Updated policy designed to address current challenges
Eliminates fragmentation and duplication.
Addresses the shortcomings in existing policy
More streamlined and integrated ACH dispensation
Promotes greater efficiency and effectiveness
Enhances coordination of inter-governmental and international cooperation
Aligned to Social Cohesion and Nation Building
Correlates with the National Development Plan
Foregrounds African Knowledge and Culture in a diverse poly-epistemic and inclusive framework
Enhances access for marginalised urban, peri-urban and rural communities
Combine the inherent value and economic values of the sector
Supports events management and technical skills development
Stresses the critical importance of education and training
Proposes innovative and flexible funding models
Upholds the rights of ACH practitioners
Emphasises effective implementation and regular monitoring and evaluation

11. 9. CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
 The revised policies are informed by the Bill of Rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic with specific reference to:
Section 9: Equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms and the promotion, protection and achievement of equality.
Section 11: Freedom and security of person
Section 16: Freedom of Expression including the freedom of artistic creativity.
Section 30: Language and participation in the cultural life of their choice.
Section 23 Fair labour practices and to form and join employers organisations.
Section 27: Health care services and social security.
Section 24. Environmental protection and ecologically sustainable development.

12. 10 . IMPLEMENTATION
The Revised White Paper provides a macro policy framework for the entire Arts, Culture and Heritage sector with broad policy directions for every subsector and specific disciplines.
Accordingly, subject to the formal adoption of the Revised White Paper as national policy, it will be implemented based on the existing financial resources allocated to the sector through:
Legislative revisions.
Feasibility Studies of the proposed policies of each subsector.
Implementation Plans for the different policies and entities.
Induction programmes for council members and staff of the new entities.
Periodic monitoring and evaluation;.

13. Thank You