Minister of Arts and Culture

The Minister of Arts and Culture is a Minister of the Cabinet of South Africa who is responsible for overseeing the Department of Arts and Culture. The portfolio was created on 29 April 2004 on the appointment of the second Cabinet of President Thabo Mbeki, when the Arts, Culture, Science and Technology portfolio was divided into two.^[2] As of 26 May 2014 the incumbent minister is Nathi Mthethwa and his deputy is Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhasi.

Institutions

Apart from the Department of Arts and Culture, the following institutions also report to the minister:^[3]

• Afrikaanse Taalmuseum
• Artscape
• Freedom Park
• Iziko Museums of Cape Town
• Luthuli Museum
• Market Theatre
• Natal Museum
• National Arts Council
• National English Literary Museum
• National Film and Video Foundation
• National Heritage Council
• National Library of South Africa
• National Museum
• Northern Flagship Institutions
• Nelson Mandela Museum
• Performing Arts Council of the Free State
• Playhouse Company
• Robben Island Museum
• South African Geographical Names Council
• South African Heritage Resources Agency
• South African Library for the Blind
• State Theatre (South Africa)
• Windybrow Centre for the Arts
• Voortrekker/Ncome Museum
• War Museum of the Boer Republics
• William Humphreys Art Gallery

Duties

Is duty of Minister of Arts and Culture digitize, preserve and make them available and accessible public domain works for every citizen. South Africa has millions of public domain works (books, pictures, music and films) that belongs to the public domain and since there is not restrictions or copyright on them and all these works can be accessed, copied and enjoyed by its citizen in order to accomplish human right of access to science and culture make more egalitarian access to culture in every country no matter the social status of the cirizens.^[4][5]

List of Past Ministers

Minister of Education, Arts and Science, 1949-1989

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
	J.H. Viljoen		1949	16 April 1958	NP		D.F. Malan (I) (II)
	J.J. Serfontein		16 April 1958	8 October 1961	NP		Hans Strydom (I)
							Hendrik Verwoerd (takes office after Strydom's death)
			8 October 1961	1970	NP		Hendrik Verwoerd (I) (II)
							B.J. Vorster (takes office after Verwoerd's death)
			1970	1981	NP		B.J. Vorster (I) (II) (III)
			1981	1989	NP		P.W. Botha (I) (II)

Minister of Education and Culture, 1989-1994

Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, 1994-2004

Minister of Arts and Culture, 2004-present

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
	Pallo Jordan		29 April 2004	22 April 2009	ANC		Thabo Mbeki (II)
							Kgalema Motlanthe (takes office after Mbeki resigns)
	Lulama Xingwana		22 April 2009	30 October 2010	ANC		Jacob Zuma (I) (II)
	Paul Mashatile	[[File:|640px|alt=]]	30 October 2010	7 May 2014
	Nathi Mthethwa		24 May 2014	Incumbent

References

External links

• Ministry of Arts and Culture
• Department of Arts and Culture

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