To provide overall financial and strategic management and administrative support.

Sub Programmes

• • Office of the MEC
  • Corporate Services and District Operations

Programme Purpose: 

To manage the provision of Cultural Affairs Services, which includes:

• • Develop and promote Arts and Culture Services
  • Manage and promote Heritage and Museum Services
  • And facilitate and promote the development of Language and Literature

Sub Programmes:

• • Management
  • Arts and Culture
  • Museum Services
  • Heritage Resource Services
  • Language Services

Services Offered:

• Promotion of arts and culture services through:
  • Develop research processes to document cultural practices and the arts
  • Determine cultural needs and services required by communities
  • Support and fund arts centres
  • Provide cultural support service
  • Manage projects to develop, promote and preserve arts and culture in the Eastern Cape

• Provide museum, geographical names and heritage resource management services through:
  • Provide Eastern Cape Museum support services
  • Develop museum policies, procedures and standards
  • Monitor the application of museum standards
  • Evaluate the application of museum standards
  • Preserve heritage resources in affiliated museums
  • Promote tangible and intangible heritage of the Eastern Cape
  • Provide heritage resource management services
  • Nominate heritage resources
  • Coordinate geographical names in the Eastern Cape
  • Maintain geographical names database

• Provide language services:
  • Monitor language policy implementation in the province
  • Promote multilingualism and previously marginalised indigenous languages

Service Recipients

• • Artists/ creatives
  • Citizens
  • Other departments/institutions/components in government at a national and provincial level
  • NGOs and CBOs
  • Traditional Leadership
  • Faith based organisations
  • Institutions of higher learning /academia

Service Channels

• • Museums
  • Art Centres
  • Theatres

Programme Purpose:

To provide comprehensive library and archive services

Sub Programmes:

• • Management
  • Library Services
  • Archives

Services Offered:

• Manage library services through:
  • Enhance municipal support services
  • Administer fund transfers to municipalities
  • Facilitate procurement of library material
  • Facilitate district professional guidance and training
  • Provide technical support for library material processing
  • Provide general library support service
  • Manage library information system infrastructure

• Manage provincial archive services:
  • Provide collection management services
  • Provide archive client information services
  • Provide preservation and conservation services
  • Administer provincial records classification systems
  • Administer e-records management systems
  • Provide archive capacity building services

Service Recipients

• • Citizens
  • Library users
  • Archives users
  • Other departments/ institutions/ components in government at a national and provincial level
  • NGOs and CBOs
  • Traditional Leadership
  • Institutions of higher learning /academia

Service Channels

• • Libraries
  • Archives

Programme Purpose:

To provide the provision of sport, recreation, and school sport activities. Manage special projects, infrastructure and Sport Development services in the province and the development of Recreational Programmes in schools and Recreation Leisure Services.

Sub Programmes:

• • Management
  • Sport Development
  • Recreation

Service Offered:

• • Promote sport development
  • Administer competitive sport promotion
  • Provide competitive sport training
  • Provide infrastructure, advice to municipalities in relation to the norms and standards
  • Provide events support services
  • Administer support and funding to sport federations

Develop recreation opportunities:

• • Administer club creation initiatives
  • Implement school sport opportunities
  • Provide to support to hubs

Service Recipients

• • Federations
  • Clubs
  • Schools
  • Sportsmen and women
  • Citizens

Service Channels

• • Sporting Academy Centres