The cultural and creative industries will vote for their
leadership in the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa
elective conference. The CCIs will elect officers and board members to serve in
the executive of the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South
Africa (CCIFSA).
The historic elective conference will see a first for South
Africa – a federation that will enjoy decision-making and bargaining powers in
the issues that affect the cultural and creative industries the most.
The idea of forming CCIFSA originates from the 2009 meeting
that President Jacob Zuma held with cultural and creative industry
practitioners. Subsequent developments stemming from that meeting led to the
Department of Arts and Culture forming two major task teams; the Music
Industry, and the Local Content Development Task Teams.
These teams went on to commission the framework of a
federation to represent the 12 sectors and 45 sub-sectors that make up the
creative and cultural industry. It is out of this framework that the CCIFSA CI
was formulated as an interim committee appointed to coordinate consultations
across all cultural and creative industries in all provinces in preparation for
the hosting of the upcoming elective conference. It is at this conference, set
for March 23 and 24, 2015, where office bearers will be elected.
CCFISA will exert tangible influence over the notoriously
fragmented and unregulated sector, and will seek to influence and, in some
instances, author conversations around new policy issues such as tax structures
affecting art practitioners, mandating the levels of local content on TV or
radio, labour issues around those employed in the industry, and the
administration of royalties or syndication fees.
The elective conference will take place in Bloemfontein,
Free State, on March 23 and 24, 2015. A delegation of over 1,000 participants
representing registered organisations operating in the cultural and creative
industries, prominent industry role players seconded by the Department of Arts
and Culture’s national and provincial offices, and representatives from sector
organisations and formations from all the provinces will choose CCIFSA’s
headship. Participating sectors include: cultural and natural heritage, visual
arts and crafts, language and publishing, audio-visual and interactive media,
design and creative services, and performance and celebration. There are 36
subsectors that will be represented under these six cultural and creative
sectors.
It is estimated that a total of 940 CCIs representatives
will formulate a memorandum of incorporation and also nominate representatives
from their sector who will sit in the CCIFSA General Council, the highest
decision-making committee at the conference.
It is envisaged that the General Council will elect (through
a process of nominations and a secret ballot vote) a new board which will
replace the current interim board. Current directors of CCIFSA will resign to
allow the industry-elected directors to take over the administration of the
federation.
The executive of the CCIFSA board will comprise the
president and a deputy, and 11 other officers, making a total of 13 board
members. Sectorial and gender preference will ensure a dynamic CCIFSA board.
“The election of the CCIFSA board will be an inclusive and
transparent undertaking to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders within the
cultural and creative industries. We want to give the federation the best
possible start by electing a strong leadership,” says CCIFSA’s interim
spokesperson Sipho Dlamini.
The new CCIFSA board will be announced at the closing of the
elective conference and will begin its duty with immediate effect.
For registration and media accreditation for the CCIFSA
elective conference contact Tebogo Eustace on 061 768 8119 or email: production@dreammultimedia.co.za
For more on CCIFSA visit www.ccifsa.org.za;
follow on Twitter @ccifsa, and Facebook www.facebook.com/CulturalandCreativeIndustriesFederationsofSouthAfrica
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