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National Arts Council mismanaged R300m intended to support artists – report

National Arts Council mismanaged R300m intended to support artists – report
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National Arts Council surplus policy breaks Act - The Mail & Guardian

National Arts Council surplus policy ‘breaks Act’ 6 May 2021 Improper: Artists protest against the National Arts Council and the sports, arts and culture department over stimulus funds. (Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images) As the dispute between the National Arts Council and the artists who applied for the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP) rages on, details of council funding irregularities that date back to 2015 are emerging. Two reports, one from 2016 and another from 2020, have indicated that a council policy used to disburse funding is in violation of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and treasury regulations. Yet the policy remains in place and Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa appears to have taken no action.

Public protector aims to resolve artists dispute with government

Public protector aims to resolve artists dispute with government 29 April 2021 - 09:43 Thami AkaMbongo and Sibongile Mngoma protesting inside the National Arts Council premises in Newtown, Johannesburg. Early this month the high court ordered protesters to leave the building. Image: ANTONIO MUCHAVE/SOWETAN The office of the public protector says it will mediate in the two-month-long dispute between artists, the National Arts Council (NAC) and the department of sport, arts and culture. The artists held a sit-in at the NAC’s offices for a month to protest about an alleged lack of transparency in the allocation of R300m from the presidential employment stimulus programme, which the artists allege is fraught with governance failures, lacks transparency and that the entity has unduly delayed the disbursement of payments to deserving arts projects.

We will sit both sides around the table - Public Protector intervenes in artists and NAC impasse

Last week, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane met with the two parties respectively.  Since then Public Protector South Africa announced plans to mediate between artists and the National Arts Council. The Public Protector argued that if the council had implemented remedial action last year, they would not be in this predicament.  On Wednesday, 28 April 2021, the Public Protector South Africa announced its plans to mediate in the two-month-long dispute between artists and the National Arts Council and the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture.  Since 3 March 2021, artists have been staging a sit-in at the NAC offices in Johannesburg. This, after they reached out to the council asking them for details on what went wrong with the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP) which the government had encouraged artists to apply for in October of 2020.

National Arts Council apologises for the way it handled

National Arts Council apologises for the way it handled
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