Sports, Arts and Culture

f) EFF Municipalities on Sports, Arts and Culture

EFF municipalities will:

1. Remove apartheid-era statues, rename streets, towns, and public landmarks that celebrate colonialism and apartheid, and replace them with names and symbols that reflect the history, heroes, and aspirations of the people of South Africa.

2. Preserve and promote African history, culture, and heritage through museums, memorials, public art, and the commissioning of monuments honouring African and anti-colonial leaders.

3. Build, maintain, and upgrade sports facilities, libraries, parks, recreational centres, stadiums, and other community facilities, with a particular focus on townships, informal settlements, and rural communities.

4. Ensure that every ward has access to safe recreational facilities, outdoor gyms, sporting infrastructure, and community spaces for social, cultural, and recreational activities.

5. Work with schools, sporting bodies, and community organisations to expand participation in sport, recreation, arts, and culture, particularly amongst young people, women, and persons with disabilities.

6. Host regular sporting, cultural, and heritage events to promote social cohesion, local talent, and community participation.

7. Establish municipal arts, culture, and heritage funds to support artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, performers, and other creative workers.

8. Support local artists and creative enterprises through access to facilities, equipment, training opportunities, public exhibitions, municipal events, festivals, and procurement opportunities.

9. Support community radio stations, local newspapers, and community media platforms as instruments of local development, information sharing, and cultural expression.

10. Establish arts and culture centres, multipurpose community facilities, and creative hubs to support cultural production, training, and enterprise development.

11. Promote the growth of the cultural and creative industries as contributors to employment, economic development, social wellbeing, and crime prevention.

12. Support local manufacturing and black-owned enterprises in the procurement of sporting, cultural, and recreational equipment.

13. Ensure that sports, arts, culture, and heritage programmes are fully inclusive and accessible to women, young people, and persons with disabilities.

14. Use sports, arts, culture, and heritage as instruments to build healthy, united, and vibrant communities while advancing economic freedom and social development.