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Intangible Heritage Convention (IHC) Budget 2023/2024 @KASBCNEWS

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Intangible Heritage Convention (IHC) Budget 2023/2024 @KASBCNEWS The Portfolio Committee met on a virtual platform for the consideration and adoption of the 2023/24 budget vote report (Budget Vote 37) of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture (DSAC), along with a briefing on the Intangible Heritage Convention (IHC). A series of edits were made to the budget vote report, with the main concerns being around the Auditor-General’s (AG's) recommendations, timeframes to be allocated to recommendations, and a monitoring system for the recommendations implemented. The briefing by the Department on the Intangible Heritage Convention had to do with the ratification of the ICH, and South Africa becoming a member of UNESCO in the context of the ICH. Members of the Committee asked for details of the budget plan, and the composition of the authentication panel. Who were the people serving on the panel? When had it been approved? Had the panel contributed to the submissions made to the Cabine...

FOOD POISONING IN SOUTH AFRICA @KASIBCNEWS

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FOOD POISONING IN SOUTH AFRICA  @KASIBCNEWS The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) is deeply concerned by the alarming rate of food poisoning incidents that have claimed the lives of many children- with 19 lives lost and 437 affected in Gauteng, and also affecting more than a thousand of children across the country. The cause of the deaths is linked to organophosphate contamination, and this has had the most impact on children between the ages of 4- 9 years old.  This is not just a public health crisis; it is a call for us to act with both urgency and compassion. We recognise that among those impacted by these incidents, are women street vendors most of whom are our sisters, mothers and grandmothers, striving to make an honest living by selling snacks and foods to our communities. It is essential to acknowledge that these vendors find themselves vulnerable to this tragic contamination of food that threatens their children, their livelihoods and their dignity....

COMMEMORATION RELEASE OF COMRADE GOVAN MBEKI FROM ROBBEN ISLAND @KASIBCNEWS

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COMMEMORATION RELEASE OF COMRADE GOVAN MBEKI FROM ROBBEN ISLAND @KASIBCNEWS  The African National Congress (ANC) commemorates the release of Isithwalandwe, the late Comrade Govan Mbeki, famously known as Oom Gov, a communist, a stalwart of the South African revolution, Umkhonto we Sizwe High Commander, and a Rivonia Trialist who spent 24 years on Robben Island for treason and terrorism against the unjust apartheid state before his release on the 5th of November 1987.  Today, as we remember Oom Gov, we honour him as a revolutionary intellectual dedicated to the struggle for freedom and liberation for all South Africans. His hatred for poverty and racial oppression is clear in his seminal work, “The Peasants Revolt,” which analysed peasant struggles in the Transkei and exposed apartheid injustices, serving as a guide for freedom fighters. Oom Gov consistently placed the people’s needs and security above his own, working fulltime as a political reporter and editor for New Age, ex...

Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) Grant Funding @KASIBCNEWS

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Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE)  Grant Funding @KASIBCNEWS  DSAC announces the opening of Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) & target groups: arts and social development applications grant funding applications (at 12:00) to the cultural and creative industries/ arts, culture and heritage fraternity The National Department of Sport, Arts and Culture officially announces the opening of Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) and Target Group: Arts and Social Development call for grant funding applications to the cultural and creative industries/ Arts, Culture and Heritage Fraternity. A call for application opens from today, 08 November to Friday, 06 December 2024.  1. Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) Launched with a mandate to increase economic growth and to create jobs in the country, the Mzansi Golden Economy strategy considers the arts, culture, and heritage sector as the “new gold” which has the potential to reposition the sector as the key market player in the country’s economic development. ...

Warning Parents to be Vigilant of what their Children Consume @KASIBCNEWS

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Warning Parents to be Vigilant of what their Children Consume @KASIBCNEWS  The Gauteng Provincial Government convened a special Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, 6 November 2024 to consider actions to be taken in response of the food borne illness in the country. The provincial government has called on parents and guardians to be vigilant and to closely monitor what their children consume, particularly items purchased in spaza shops and vendors outside school premises.   This comes after the death and hospitalisation of numerous children in the province after they consumed snacks purchased in local spaza shops. The Acting Premier, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, together with MEC for Finance and Economic Development, Lebogang Maile visited families in Katlehong on Tuesday, 5 November 2024 following the deaths of two children from suspected food poisoning. “As parents, let’s encourage our children not to buy these snacks as they have no health benefits, instead they are ha...