2022-w2722 - 07 September 2022

Brian Sindile Madlingozi to ask the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:”

(1) What is the rationale behind the R22 million monumental flag project that has been referred to cabinet for further discussion and formal decision. (2) Whether he has found that this project is more important than addressing the plight of artists in the country; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:” on 7 Sep 2022

(1). As part of transforming our heritage landscape, the Department has a responsibility to introduce monuments that show our transition from apartheid to democracy. This is in the light of the fact that one of the key mandates of the Department is to promote nation building and social cohesion. National symbols, especially the national flag, expresses the country’s common identity which is pivotal to ...

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2022-w24 - 28 February 2022

Bhekizizwe Nivard Luthuli to ask the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:”

Whether his department has the capacity to ensure compulsory sports participation at schools in townships and rural areas; if not, what is needed for this to be realised; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:” on 28 Feb 2022

School Sport remains an extra-curricular activity within the Department of Basic Education. This implies that, it remains an option to accommodate within the school’s programme, when all other core-curricular activities have been addressed. To this end, only Physical Education, through the Life Orientation Subject, remains a compulsory subject within the school’s curriculum. The implementation and the enforcement of the curriculum remain the function of ...

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2022-w25 - 28 February 2022

Bhekizizwe Nivard Luthuli to ask the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:”

(1) Whether, in light of the recent reopening of the Hip-Hop Museum in Newtown with the backing of his department, his department has backed a Maskandi museum or similar project in the past; if not, why not; if so, what are the full, relevant details; (2). whether his department has any plans to support similar initiatives in the future?

Reply from the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:” on 28 Feb 2022

1. The Ministerial media engagement to promote the relationship that the Department has with the Hip-Hop Museum was held on 3 February 2022. The event was not held to open the Hip-Hop Museum. The Department also did not build the Hip-Hop Museum.

The event was held to profile the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture engineering and contribution to the Cultural and Creative Industry ...

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2021-w1556 - 17 June 2021

Veronica Van Dyk to ask the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:”

What steps has his department taken to date regarding the slow progress of the Memorandum of Understanding on School Sport between Sport and Recreation South Africa and the Department of Basic Education?

Reply from the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture:” on 17 Jun 2021

THE Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture has met with the Minister of Basic Education to review the MOU. Both Directors- General have been tasked with the review of the MOU.

The review process is underway. Consultations have taken place internally in the Department and with the colleagues at the Department of Basic Education.

A first draft that integrate all areas of the Department’s ...

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