Department Of Arts And Culture Pretoria

Department Of Arts And Culture Pretoria

The vision of the Department of Arts and Culture is to be a thriving arts, culture and heritage sector contributing to sustainable economic development, leveraging on partnerships for a socially cohesive nation.

The Department’s strategic outcome-orientated goals are to: create 150 000 decent jobs in arts, culture and heritage; implement targeted programmes that are geared towards human capital development in the arts, culture and heritage sector; enhance access by citizens and public institutions to accurate, reliable and timely information in their language of choice though the provision of archives, libraries and language services; entrench linguistic diversity in a manner that facilitates equitable cultural expression by citizens and communities; enhance the capacity of the sector through equitable and sustainable development, and the protection and preservation of arts, culture and heritage through policy development, legislative promulgation and implementation; and align public sector art, culture and heritage institutions around a shared vision, a common mandate, and strong governance and accountability.

Departmental Contact Information

Postal Address Private Bag X 897 PRETORIA 0001 Physical Address VWL Building, 122 Madiba Street, Pretoria Telephone +27 (12) 441 3000 Fax  +27 (12) 441 3699 Email  [email protected]  Ministry Contact Information Ministry – Pretoria 17th Floor VWL Building 122 Madiba Street Pretoria Private Bag X 899 PRETORIA 0001 Tel:  +27 (12) 441 3000 Fax: +27 (12) 440 4485 Email: [email protected] Ministry – Cape Town 120 Plein Street Room 1635 CAPE TOWN Private Bag X 9011 CAPE TOWN 8000 Tel: +27 (21) 465 5620 Fax: +27 (21) 461 4236 Email: [email protected]  Deputy Ministry Contact Information Deputy Ministry – Pretoria 17th Floor VWL Buiding 122 Madiba Street Pretoria Private Bag X 889 PRETORIA 0001 Tel:  +27 (12) 441 3014 Fax: +27 (12) 441 3614 Email: [email protected] Deputy Ministry – Cape Town 120 Plein Street Room 1639 CAPE TOWN Private Bag X 9137 CAPE TOWN 8000 Tel:  +27 (21) 465 5620 Fax: +27 (21) 465 5624 Email: [email protected]  Director-General Contact Information Pretoria 16th Floor VWL Building 122 Madiba Street Pretoria Private Bag X897 PRETORIA 0001 Tel:  +27 (12) 441 3027 Fax: +27 (12) 440 4489 Email: [email protected] Cape Town 120 Plein Street Room 1621 CAPE TOWN Private Bag X9137 CAPE TOWN 8000 Tel: +27 (21) 469 5331 Fax: +27 (21) 461 4510 Email:[email protected]

The Department of Arts and Culture is one of the departments of the South African government. It promotes, supports, develops and protects the arts, culture and heritage of South Africa. The heritage sites, museums and monuments of the country also reside under this ministry. The political head of the department is the Minister of Arts and Culture; as of 2014 this is Nathi Mthethwa.
In the 2010 national budget, the department received an appropriation of 2,406.7 million rand, and had 461 employees.