CHIEF DIRECTORATE : HERITAGE

TWO DIRECTORATES 1. Institutional Development Heritage Institutions & Policy Legacy Project 2. Living/Intangible Heritage Living Heritage SAGNU

The aim of the Chief Heritage is to: Establish new arts and heritage institutions and recast existing monuments and histories Promote and establish conversation bodies by proclaiming new heritage institutions that redress neglected histories Promoting heritage preservation in South Africa by providing support and funding to organisations that preserve and promote heritage. Management and oversight of the South African Geographical Names Council and development of an authoritative database of geographical names

Heritage Institutions and Policy 13 Declared Cultural institutions South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) National Heritage Council (NHC) Governance Compliance with various legislations and policy Facilitating transformation in line with National imperatives Transformation Budgets  Human Resource Development (HRD)  New audiences  Public involvement and participation  Cultural transformation  Multilingualism  Establishing partnerships and linkages with other sectors  5 Institutions received funding  Monitoring of the Transformation Programme  Capacity Building

Legacy Projects Redress of past imbalances in the heritage landscape Portfolio of legacy projects (nine) Status report  2 completed  3 main components completed  4 Implementation phase Adhoc projects  Sarah Bartman  Hand over ceremony to South Africa  Enrobement  Interment ceremony  Declaration of site as a National Heritage site New national policy and strategic framework for implementation Policy and strategic framework for monitoring  Efficacy  Efficient  Speed in congruent with National imperative

Living/Intangible Cultural Heritage Indigenous music and oral history programme  Collection  Conservation  Promotion  Dissemination Strategic Partnership with universities  Venda  Fort Hare  Zululand Recently submitted business plan September – launching of the Indigenous Music &Oral History Roll-Out Strategy Draft convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage

SAGNU Nine provincial structures established and functioning Publication for distribution in all nine provincial structures  Handbook  Leaflet – in all 11 languages  Annual report  Exhibition material that can be taken to provinces, conferences etc. Backlog of more than names identified for review  Divided by provinces  Given to provincial structures for consultation and processing

 South African Geographical names database (sagnu.dac.gov.za) established to facilitate the process of approving names therefore we can now:  Manage and monitor the progress  Capture new names  Retrieve information easily for reports  Improve co-ordination and reduce duplication  Spatial representation of names  Remote updating and online approval  Access existing gazetters online  Survey of latitude/longitude  Automatic feedback/reporting to application

SOUTH AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES DATABASE (SAGNU.DAC.GOV.ZA) ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE THE PROCESS OF APPROVING NAMES THEREFORE WE CAN NOW:  Manage and monitor the progress  Capture new names  Retrieve information easily for reports  Improve co-ordination and reduce duplication  Spatial representation of names  Remote updating and online approval  Access existing gazetters online  Survey of latitude/longitude  Automatic feedback/reporting to application