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Department of Arts & Culture on its draft five-year Strategic Plan; Ditsong Museum of S & National Film & Video Foundation on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
11 Nov 2014
Briefing by the Department of Arts and Culture on the draft five year Strategic Plan
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) gave a presentation on the focus and strategic plans for the Department over the next few years. DAC aimed to develop, protect, preserve and promote the arts, culture ...
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Department of Arts and Culture on status report of its archives programme & five-year strategic plan
4 Nov 2014
The Committee was told by the Content Advisor that a study of the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) report on its archive programme had highlighted a number of shortfalls and weaknesses. These included record management, the Department of Home Affairs not transferring documents to the National Archive, the classification ...
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Use of Official Languages Act, South African Language Practitioners Acts: implementation plans: Department of Arts and Culture briefings
28 Oct 2014
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) briefed the Committee on progress on the implementation of The Use of Official Languages Act, and the plan for the implementation of the South African Language Practitioners Act. It was noted that the Use of Official Languages Act was promulgated to regulate the ...
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Department of Arts and Culture Annual Report 2013/14 on its public entities
21 Oct 2014
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) presented the 2013/14 annual report on its public entities. Some key achievements were highlighted. The number of exhibitions per year had increased by 32, the number of educational interactions with schools per year had increased from 146 221 to 153 541, the number of ...
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Audit Outcomes of Department of Arts & Culture: AGSA briefing; Department of Arts & Culture on its 2013/14 Annual Report
14 Oct 2014
A synopsis for the Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) on the expenditure and the performance of the Department after 6 months of the financial year was presented to the Committee. The report indicated that the Department transferred almost 80% of its budget to entities and had an obligation to ...
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Pan South African Language Board Oversight Visit: Reflections & Recommendations
9 Sep 2014
The Committee reflected on its oversight visit to the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). The Committee had met with staff to hear and address their numerous complaints about the entity. Members decribed the engagement as a painful experience as there was tension between the lower staff and the management. ...
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Pan South African Language Board & Commission for Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities on their roles, mandates and issues requiring immediate attention
26 Aug 2014
The Joint meeting focused on two presentations from two Schedule one institutions of the Constitution established to advance democracy in South Africa. These were the Pan South African Language Board and the Commission for the Promotion & Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious & Linguistic Communities.
The Committees firstly ...
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Department of Arts and Culture on Quarterly Expenditure Reports and Performance Review
19 Aug 2014
After the Committee was advised by its researcher and content advisor that the Department’s reports would illustrate areas of under-expenditure and non-achievement of targets, and that some of the challenges that had led to a lack of execution were planning, leadership and coordination, the Chairperson said it was important to ...
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Department of Arts and Culture 2014 Strategic Plan: Analysis by Committee Staff & briefing by Department, with Minister and Deputy Minister in attendance
1 Jul 2014
The Committee Secretary briefed the Portfolio Committee on the processing of budget votes. The executive authority of a department had to table strategic or annual performance plans, and this had to be announced in the publication Announcements, Tabling and Committee Reports (ATC). The National Assembly Speaker referred plans to committees ...
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Election of Chairperson
24 Jun 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture met briefly to elect a Chairperson. Ms X Tom (ANC) was elected unopposed. In her opening remarks, the Chairperson emphasised that the Members needed to work as a team, respect each other and appreciate political differences.