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was screened on DSTV from the 16th of January 2023. The department further launched a new Udaba

dance festival to create a niche market into bouquet of what already exist in the province’s offering.

In Visual arts, craft and fashion design, the Public Entity, Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council
(ECPACC), has made a breakthrough in the craft sector by developing an online market aimed at
promoting exquisite craft products to domestic as well as international markets. The EC collection

exhibition, with 52 craft businesses, benefitted from the National Arts Festival through their sales.

During the period under review, the Resistance and liberation heritage route sites developed, the
department achieved its target of 1 in the Canon James Calata Statue and the bronze statues of Dr AB

Xuma and Walter Sisulu being unveiled.

In collaboration with relevant national, provincial and local spheres of government, the department
obtained its target of 1 in facilitating the exhumation, repatriation and reburial of remains of James Hambile

Booi, Nontimber Mbozwana, Bonakele Ngcongolo and Phineas Mlotywa.

In the Geographical names change programme, the National Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture approved
and published 11 place names in the Government Gazette of 26 August 2022.

The Eastern Cape Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (ECPHRA) has embarked on business site

visits to the Klassies River Caves Archaeological Site in Humansdorp – Tsitsikamma corridor, and
Qhemerha Fossil Paleontological Site in Sterkspruit respectively. The process to submit nomination to the
World Heritage Committee for the Klassies River Caves to be declared the World Heritage Site have

started.

In the promotion of multilingualism, 100 publications for budding authors were produced. The South
African Revenue Service (SARS) handed over a terminology publication to the province. The department
also teamed up with Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), Department of Education and

Northern Cape in a project that seeks to revive and resuscitate Khoisan Language. The department
achieved its target of 3 programmes in which it seek to give effect to the implementation of indigenous

language development.

In Archival collections, the department received 2 records that are to be transferred to archives, as at the

reporting term. Professor and researcher from Michigan (USA) donated her newly published book
“Liberation and Development” to the Provincial Archives and Records Services. The book was delivered

by the researcher in August 2022 and this study” is a vital intervention in the history of the struggle against
apartheid, the social history of the 1970’s and the African origins of community development.

The digitisation of archives, a manual arrangement and description of the groups selected for digitization
have been conducted, namely Chiefs and Headmen, Land Allotments, and Idutywa Trading Sites in Qonce
and Mthatha archives respectively. There were milestones achieved which include development of

inventories aligned to the metadata fields for the system of arrangement and description of archival
material (AtOM) on the selected group of Land Allotments in the Qonce repository.

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