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Table 6: National legislative mandates relevant to SACR Act

Relevance to DSACR mandate Cultural Affairs

National Arts Council Act, 1997 (Act No. 56 of 1997) South African Geographical Names Council Act, 1998 (Act No. 118 of 1998) Pan South African Language Board Act, 1995 as amended (PANSALB) (Act No. 59 of 1995) National Heritage Council Act, 1999 (Act No. 11 of 1999)

• Ensures the promotion and coordination of arts.

• Facilitates the establishment of Provincial Geographic Names Committees to transform and standardise geographical names.

• Facilitates the establishment of a Provincial Language Committee for language policy and development.

• Outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Council with regard to heritage development and promotion at national, provincial and local government level. • Facilitates the establishment of a Provincial Heritage Resources Agency (PHRA) and a Local Heritage Resource Agency (LHRA) that must ensure good management of Grade I and Grade II heritage resources and heritage resources that are deemed to be provincial and local competences respectively. • Provides for the preservation, development, fostering and extension of culture in the Republic by planning, organising, coordinating and providing for the utilisation of leisure and for non-formal education and for the development and promotion of cultural relations with other countries. • Protection, promotion, development and management of the Indigenous Knowledge Act. Sport and Recreation • De ¿ nes the supportive role of the Sport Commission in relation to the province and provides guidelines on how the MEC can intervene in issues affecting sport and recreation and the relationship with the South African Sports Confederation and Olympics Committee (SASCOC). • Establishes a doping control programme in compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code to provide for testing athletes for doping by sports administration bodies; and to provide for punitive measures against national sports federations not complying with the regulations contained in the Act. • Provides for a new structure for professional boxing in the Republic; to ensure the effective and ef ¿ cient administration of professional boxing in the Republic; to recognise amateur boxing; to create synergy between professional and amateur boxing; to establish a Boxing Commission known as Boxing SA; to promote interaction between associations of boxers, managers, promoters, trainers and of ¿ cials and Boxing SA. • Provides for measures to safeguard the physical well-being and safety of people and property at sports, recreational, religious, cultural, • Regulates and governs the use and protection of heraldry.

National Heritage Resources Act, 1999 (Act No. 25 of 1999)

Heraldry Act, 1962 (Act No. 18 of 1962) Culture Promotion Amendment Act as amended, 1998 (Act No. 59 of 1998)

Indigenous Knowledge Act (Act No. 6 of 2019)

National Sports and Recreational Act (No. 110 of 1998, as amended in 2007) South African Institute for Drug Free Sport Act, 1997 (Act No.14 of 1997, as amended)

South African Boxing Act, 2001 (Act No. 11 of 2001)

The Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act, 2010 (Act No. 2 of 2010)

exhibitional, organisational or similar events held at stadiums, venues or along a route and to provide for the accountability of event role-players. Fitness Industry Regulatory Bill, 2016 • Regulates, controls and exercises general supervision over the ¿ tness industry in the Republic. South African Combat Sport Bill, 2016 • Regulates, controls and exercises general supervision over amateur and professional combat sport at tournaments in the Republic. South African Coaching Framework • Creates an effective, inclusive, cohesive and ethical coaching system that promotes transformation and excellence in an active and winning nation.

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