The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) will elect officers and board members to serve in the executive of the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) on 23 and 24 March.
“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.
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, according to Dlamini.
“A delegation of about 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.
