Cultural Affairs and Sport
With regard to her Department’s COVID-19 Cultural Affairs Relief Funding and other COVID-19 relief funds for athletes, artists and museums:
(1) What is the total expenditure breakdown of COVID-19 relief funding that was paid to (a) cultural organisations, (b) museums, (c) artists and (d) athletes during the period for which the funding was available, including a detailed list of beneficiaries, showing the (i) names of NGOs and/or individual artists or athletes and (ii) amounts received by each beneficiary;
(2) what are the (a) details of the COVID-19 relief funding that (i) is still continuing and (ii) has been withdrawn and (b) reasons for each decision?
[1] Listed below are the total expenditure breakdowns for categories [a to d] of the COVID-19 relief funding:
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BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR RELIEF |
AMOUNT SPENT |
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VOTED FUNDS |
CONDITIONAL GRANT |
VOTED FUNDS |
CONDITIONAL GRANT |
|
SPORT |
- |
R1,000,000 |
- |
R 1,000,000 |
|
ARTS |
R4,700,000 |
- |
R3,285,000* |
- |
|
MUSEUMS |
R1,305,543 |
- |
R1,305,543 |
- |
|
LIBRARIES** |
- |
R1,111,000*** R 530,000**** |
- |
R1,111,000*** Funds transferred in July 2021**** |
*The Balance of the funds have been used for recovery phase to fund activities in the gig economy.
**This amount was specifically for PPE in Libraries and not for Social Relief.
*** FY 2020/21
**** FY 2021/22
[i] The breakdown showing the names of museums, NGOs and/or individual artists as well as (ii) the amount received is provided in Annexure: A1_ Cultural Organisations; A2_Museums; A3_ Artists; and A4 Athletes.
[2] what are the [a] details of the COVID-19 relief funding that [i] is still continuing and [ii] has been withdrawn and [b] reasons for each decision?
Response:
[2][a] There is no further budget allocated towards COVID-19 relief funding and there are no plans for future relief. WCG is focusing on Recovery and has started by funding Arts programmes in the gig economy to get artists working again. The Relief Plan is aligned to the Provincial Recovery Plan called the GIG Economy Support. R 2 million set aside for support of the GIG Economy which aims to support artists in the various creative sectors.
[i-iii] Covid relief funding was a national initiative at the time of the lock down, no further funds were made available.
