The SABC is a strategic asset, and it broadcasts millions of homes. Local content must be promoted on the SABC. That is why TV stations and radios must air content that is at least 75% African., with African actors, producers, directors, and story lines.
Our children must not be made to feel inferior or insecure about their identities, and they must see those who look and speak like them on TV and in movies.
Government must also assist these black actors, artists, producers and directors. Government procurement, legislation and use of state entities are an easy and practical way of doing this, and the SABC must play a central role. A state-owned music distribution and
production company needs to be established. Which local artists can use, produce and distribute their music, while still being able to maintain the rights to their creative product?
Government must only hire local artists for state events, and must prioritise new and upcoming artists. Local art galleries must be required to promote and sell a minimum of 90% local art.
Local artists must be commissioned to paint and beautify government buildings and facilities like schools, hospitals and transport hubs, just like the guy ... [Interjections.] Funds need to be established for local authors and producers so they have the necessary capital to produce.
We cannot continue to have a government that opportunistically supports artists once they have died, but neglects and fails to support them while they are still alive.
At grassroots level each ward must have an arts and culture centre. Each ward must have a mini-theatre. Each school must have dedicated Arts and Culture teachers.
The Pan-South African Language Board must work with the Department of Basic and the Department Higher Education so that children are taught all subjects in their mother tongue, and so academic papers are published in African languages.
When it comes to museums, the department cannot continue to allocate funding the Boere Museum and other colonial monuments, while neglecting museums and monuments dedicated to African heroes and culture. If the boere really want more money, they can always go to AfriForum and get help there. [Interjections.]
Government must rather allocate money for new museums to commission South African sculptors, to build statues that memorialise our great African heroes.
At the same time all statues of colonial and apartheid leaders must be torn down, and discarded to the dustbin of history.