He indicated that they established a Provincial Arts and Culture Council in terms of Act 106 of the Free State Provincial Arts and Culture Council of 2007. The objective of the Council was to address the historical imbalances in the provision of infrastructure and funding for the promotion of the Arts. He explained that all 5 Municipalities had a delegate on the Board who had been appointed by the MEC, Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation. Adv Malakoane informed the Committee that the Provincial Arts and Culture Council had thus far approved nine Music Bursaries, nineteen Music Project applications, ten Literature applications, one Visual Arts application, three Fine Arts applications, three Multidiscipline applications, one Film, Drama and Theatre application, eight Crafts applications and three Dance applications. He indicated that the funding was to be filtered into the MACUFE fringe programme and that the MACUFE festival generated R39, 8 million in revenue. In concluding his portion of the presentation he indicated that his department envisaged purchasing vehicles for all Community Arts Centres to enable them to do outreach work in the rural areas.