Cultural Affairs and Sport
With regard to claims by the Chairperson of Heritage Western Cape in the 2020/21 Annual Report that the Council is of the view that more staff members are needed in order to execute its mandate optimally:
- (a) What measures have been put in place to pay the heritage professionals salaries that are competitive in the market and (b) what is the number of employees who have resigned from Heritage Western Cape in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018, (vi) 2019, (vii) 2020 and (viii) 2021 to date;
- whether there are plans to increase the budget for Heritage Western Cape; if so, what are the relevant details?
Response:
[1][a] The number of posts required to perform the heritage function were determined as part of a volumetric exercise on the organisational structure of the department. Salaries for Heritage professional officials are determined through a nationally coordinated job evaluation process of which the outcome of that process was approved for the Western Cape. As the salaries are determined through a nationally co-ordinated process the department does not have the authority to determine salaries over and above this process.
The number of employees of DCAS with HWC related responsibilities that have resigned from 2014 to 2021 are as follows:
- 2014 : 3
- 2015 : 0
- 2016 : 2
- 2017 : 0
- 2018 : 1
- 2019 :1
- 2020 : 1
- 2021 to date; 0
[2.] Yes , the transfers to the entity HWC will increase over the MTEF as indicated below.
2021/22: R550 000
2022/23: R572 000
2023/24: R572 000
Apart from the above the Provincial Treasury made R5.085m available to DCAS [Heritage Resource Management] responsible for the appointment of an additional 15 Heritage officials for the financial year 2020/21 . R5.085 million was made available in 2020/21, R7.119 million in 2021/22, and R7.475 million in 2022/23 has been earmarked for capacitating Heritage Resource management to give effect to the National Heritage Resource Act.
