DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, ARTS AND CULTURE MEDIA STATEMENT AUGUST 2021 WOMEN’S MONTH 2021
DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, ARTS AND CULTURE MEDIA STATEMENT AUGUST 2021 WOMEN'S MONTH 2021 Every year, in August, our country marks Women’s Month, when we pay tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. This year
Nelson Mandela Month 2021
For Nelson Mandela International Day 2021, the focus will be on two critical intersecting challenges being faced by South Africa and many other countries – food insecurity and cultures of lawlessness. Covid-19 has deepened patterns of poverty and inequality. The numbers of people going hungry are growing. Social cohesion is under severe strain.
MEDIA STATEMENT 14 JUNE 2021 YOUTH MONTH 2021
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture will facilitate a number of social dialogues with intentions to educate the youths about sacrifices made by an anti-apartheid struggle icon Charlotte Maxeke. The dialogues will also focus on roles played by 1976 youths against apartheid. The conversations will be rolled out as part of Northern Cape Provincial
UPDATE ON RELOCATION FROM ASHBURNHAM TO VARIOUS OFFICE BUILDINGS IN KIMBERLEY MEDIA STATEMENT
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has finalised its relocation from the old office building at number 22 Abattoir Road in the Ashburnham industrial site in Kimberley. The department has temporarily relocated its Provincial Library Services to the second floor of Permanent Building in the Kimberley's Central Business District in the Frances Baard
Youth Month 2021
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto when young people protested against imposition of Afrikaans by the apartheid regime as a medium of instruction. The uprising ended tragically with hundreds of young people being brutally killed. Following the advent of democracy in 1994, the new democratic
FREEDOM MONTH 2021
South Africa is commemorating Freedom Month under the theme: “The year of Charlotte Maxeke: the meaning of Freedom under COVID-19”. #FreedomMonth2021 #2021YearofCharlotteMaxeke
Human Rights Marathon 2021
The MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Ms. Desery Fienies will officiate the inaugural Phakamile Mabija Human Rights Half Marathon which will be held in Kimberley in the Frances Baard District on Sunday, 21 March 2021. The marathon was postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the country last year. It forms part of Department's