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Department: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culturethat rely heavily on government funding (a single source of income) will be encouraged to explore and exploit the potential of some alternative income streams. The department will resuscitate and or review its community hub development model to ensure that a community hub is attractive, inclusive, and accessible to all residents of the identified community. Special attention will be given to the allocation of resources, activities, and ideas of women and young people as drivers of change in their respective communities. These hubs will be designed to hear and consider the voices of traditionally excluded groups, those who are side-lined and under threat on the grounds of ethnicity, disability, social standing, or current political rhetoric. Community hubs are key to free expression, socialising and their inclusion in social and economic courses of a society. The department will work with sporting bodies and businesses to help them develop a business strategy for the sport and recreation sector to support growth, improve access to finance and develop skills. A stronger and more successful sporting economy will help meet customer needs more effectively, and a strong demand from the public for opportunities to take part in sport and recreation will also help drive the sporting economy. The department will review take up of and engagement with the Department of Education and TVET colleges to ensure that sports facilities owned by schools and colleges are used as effectively as possible and are available to a broad range of community sports groups. In ensuring that future leaders are developed with the sport and recreation sector, the department will introduce young ambassador programme to promote sport and recreation, motivate and inspire other young people to get involved in sport in a wide range of settings within their local communities, including schools, clubs, and community organisations. 4 REPRIORITISATION The department will continue generating economic spin-offs and growth and development of artists in the province. In the current year, going forward, funds were reprioritized from various areas of goods and services amounting to R8 million to Departmental Agencies to the departmental entity, Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council (ECPACC) towards greater investment in film development, especially ones which will expose the beautiful scenery of the wild coast to also serve as a marketing tool for tourism industry. R3.044 million has been reprioritized from goods and services towards departmental agencies for purposes of covering office rental costs for ECPACC as the Department of Public Works has stopped paying rental costs for the entity. Museums of the province will also get increased allocation amounting to R17.404 million for transfers from goods and services to assist in paying their municipal bills, which have been increased by municipalities since these institutions have been re-categorized as business entities. Funds amounting to R7.693 million is reprioritised towards goods and services from capital expenditure towards increasing the number of remains that are repatriated from the African countries to be buried in South Africa. Under Libraries and Archives, R16.739 million was reprioritized towards compensation of employees with the purpose of staffing the new libraries and understaffed libraries to enable them to operate effectively. The department will be increasing volumes of electronic records to the EC public online amounting to R3.921 million, reprioritised from within goods and services of Libraries and Archives. Under Sport and Recreation, R875 thousand was reprioritized from machinery and equipment towards transfers to non-profit institutions to fund rugby development under the Eastern Cape Sports Confederation. (ECSC). 818