Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile will address the representatives of the arts sector at a workshop to discuss the revised White Paper on arts, culture and heritage (1996). The event will take place on Friday, 12 July 2013 at the Focus Room Conference Venue in Sunninghill, Johannesburg.
The purpose of the workshop is to afford experts and content drivers in the sector with the opportunity to critically engage and contribute to the Revised White Paper.
The White Paper has provided the key policy framework for the department and the sector for 17 years. It has been a seminal document for the transformation and repositioning of the arts, culture and heritage sector in the economic development. The policy has also contributed immensely in the promotion, protection and preservation of the sector including engendering social cohesion and nation building.
While this policy framework has achieved many of the objectives envisaged, new developments in the sector and in the country at large have necessitated its review. South African society has been undergoing fundamental transformation over the past years.
This review epitomises the government’s collective effort in working together with its stakeholders to ensure that policies respond effectively to the needs of the people.
Members of the media are invited; programme attached:
Date: Friday, 12 July 2013
Time: 7h30 for 8h30
Venue: The Focus Room, The Core, 1st Floor South, cnr. Kikuyu and Leeuwkop Street, Sunninghill, Sandton
Media inquiries:
Mack Lewele
Cell: 082 450 5076
Email: MackC@dac.gov.za
Teresa Magidela Shabalala
Cell: 082 933 9156
Tel: 012 441 3626
Email: TeresaS@dac.gov.za
RSVP:
Madimetja Moleba
Cell: 072 842 6594
Tel: 012 441 3737
Email: MadimetjaM@dac.gov.za
