Today, we

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INTRODUCTION

• Today, we cannot continue to place certain
  cultural, religious and linguistic communities on
  a pedestal and regard them as primary and first
  among equals. The challenge for us is to seek and
  find ways to promote and protect our cultural
  diversity. As the United Nations has declared,
  cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind
  as bio-diversity is for nature.

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VISION, MISSION, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• VISION
• To contribute meaningfully and constructively to
  social transformation and nation-building for the
  attainment of a truly united South Africa

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MISSION

• Promote, develop and foster
• Mutual Respect, Peace, Friendship, humanity,
  tolerance, equality, non-discrimination, free
  association, national unity
• The right of communities to develop their
  historically diminished cultural heritage

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• Establish and maintain a qualitative human and
  financial resource management system
• Promote respect for the rights of cultural
  religious and linguistic communities

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THE FIRST NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE

• Background to the NCC
• Key Features
• Key Issues Raised
• Key Recommendations
• Way forward

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BACKGROUND TO THE NCC

• Mandatory
• First twelve months and every five years
• Specific categories of communities
• Specific outputs/outcomes

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INPUTS OUTPUTS

• Report of the Commission
• - activities,
• - accomplishments,
• - challenges and
• - recommendations
• Evaluation of progress in South Africa with
  regard to
• - promotion of respect for and the furthering of
  the protection of the

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INPUTS OUTPUTS

• rights of cultural, religious and linguistic
  communities and
• - furthering of peace, friendship, humanity,
  tolerance and national unity among and within crl
  communities on the basis of equality,
  nondiscrimination and free association
• Formulation of requests and recommendations to
  the Commission in relation to (a) and (b) above

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INPUTS OUTPUTS

• Discussion of conference resolutions pertaining
  to requests to and priorities for the Commission
• Promoting appreciation for cultural, religious
  and linguistic diversity (sec 25 of the CRL
  Commission Act)

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IMBIZO

• NCC THEME
• Unity in Diversity
• A challenge?

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KEY FEATURES

• Daily Multi-religious prayers
• - African religion,
• - Christianity,
• - Hinduism,
• - Islam,
• - Judaism, and
• - Rastafarian
• Mixed cultural performance
• Political presentations setting the stage Gala
  Dinners of the conference.

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KEY FEATURES (Cont)

• Multi cultural food and food
• Presentations on
• - Culture and Nation Building
• - Religion and Nation Building
• - Language and Nation Building
• Dialogue plenary, group discussion

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KEY FEATURES (CONT)

• Simultaneous translation
• Reference documents Copies of the CRL Commission
  Act in eleven languages

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ISSUES RAISED

• Culture
• - We should create an environment in which no
  culture is regarded as inferior.
• - Who benefits from the commercialisation of our
  heritage through tourism?
• - Can we survive if culture is being regarded as
  a commodity convention of cultural diversity?

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• - Renaming of places, rivers do be done without
  being divisive
• - Dominance of English language and western
  culture

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Issues Raised

• - Community rights versus cultural, religious and
  linguistic rights-is there a contradiction?
• - Europeanization of African people
• - Negative portrayal by the media of some
  cultural, religious and linguistic communities

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Issues Raised

• - The role of culture in NEPAD and other
  multilateral programmes
• - The need to bridge the gap between cultural
  imperialism and cultural chauvinism.
• - Identity as a basis for human dignity

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Issues Raised

• - Cultural, religious and linguistic diversity
  should permeate our educational curricula in
  order for socialisation to be consistent with the
  promotion of crl diversity
• - The media needs to provide, through its
  presentations, a forum for sharing the wealth of
  South Africas cultural diversity

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Issues Raised

• Religion
• Religion is an agent for nation building and as
  such must be practiced in a manner respectful of
  others
• - Need to create space for the promotion of
  indigenous religions part of diminished
  heritage Khoisan religion.

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Issues raised

• - Young people not to be seen as empty bottles
  to be filled, but candles to be lit.
• - The CRL Commission should do a study on
  Satanism and its impact on communities.
• - The extent to which in promoting and protecting
  religious rights interfaces with faith
  communities.
• - CRL Commission should provide platform for
  regular and appropriate communication

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Issues Raised

• Language
• - Need to clarify ambiguity in National Language
  Policy. As a nation do we support bilingualism or
  multilingualism
• - What makes a language official in terms of
  resource allocation (Courts, schools and
  literature?)

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Issues Raised

• - Challenge of accommodating and promoting
  smaller languages.
• - Education Department to provide resources, both
  human and financial for language promotion.
• - SABC programming be sensitive/ reflect
  linguistic diversity.

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Issues Raised

• - Create space for promotion of sign language.
• - CRLC should encourage discussion on South
  African Languages Bill.

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CONCLUSION FINAL ANALYSIS

• The first NCC created space for interaction and
  expression of the needs and aspirations of the
  various crl communities.
• These ranged from the need to - improve awareness
  of one anothers cultures, religions and
  languages
• - community education
• - research
• - recognition of significant occasions in the
  history of the various communities, nation,
  continent and the world.

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STRATEGIC PLANPRIORITY FOCUS

• Participative Research and Monitoring
• Awareness
• Education and Advocacy
• Development of Diminishing Cultural Heritage
• National and International Relations
• Consultations
• Strategic interventions

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Examples

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Strategic Programmes

• As attached

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RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS

• Human Resources
• Budget
• Budget Deficit (R11 000)