The Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture together with the National Department of Arts and Culture and the National Institute Community Development and Management, NICDAM will be hosting Community Conversations on Social Cohesion. The conversations will be held on Thursday, 03 August 2017 at the Orania enclave in the Pixley ka Seme District at 12h00. They will also be held at the Sol Plaatje University in the Frances Baard District on Friday, 04 August 2017.

The gatherings will provide an opportunity for leaders and various stakeholders to come together and have robust discussions on the following issues around Social Cohesion and Nation Building.

• The role of race in South Africa
• The role of language in South Africa
• The role of values and morals in South Africa
• The role of poverty alleviation in South Africa
• The role of gender based  violence in South Africa
• The role of safety and security in South Africa

The dialogues are part of the basket of resolutions taken at the 2012 national social cohesion summit in Kliptown, which attracted a broad spectrum of South African society. At the summit, among other resolutions that were taken, it was resolved that the Department of Arts and Culture as the coordinating department for social cohesion and nation building on behalf of government, must create dialogic platform with the aim of bridging socio-historical divisions created by many years of colonial and apartheid misrule. These dialogues are important as they would assist government in ascertaining the efficacy of current interventions meant to promote social cohesion and nation building. The 2017/2018 round of dialogues will be the third since the commencement of the dialogues in 2015/2016.

For more enquiries related to the social cohesion dialogues kindly contact Conrad Fortune @ 0798730679 or Morapedi Sekhoane 078 944 0200


Issued by: Communications Unit
Northern Cape Sport, Arts and Culture Department
Tell: 053 807 4782/ Cell: 078 944 0200