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South African Government Policy: Library Guide: Heritage

Bibliographic records and links of South African government policies, plans and strategies

Frameworks

South African Heritage Resources Agency. Draft national thematic framework for heritage resource management. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, January 2024. In: South Africa. Government gazette no. 49968 (5 January 2024), Board notice 540 of 2023.

Strategies

City of Cape Town. Environmental Management Branch: Heritage Resources Section. Integrated Metropolitan Environmental Policy (IMEP). Cultural Heritage Strategy for the City of Cape Town. Cape Town: Environmental Management Branch: Heritage Resources Section, 2005?

Names: places and streets

City of Cape Town. Street naming and numbering policy (policy number 21288). Revised and approved by Council: 25 June 2014, C62/06/14. 

City of Cape Town. Naming policy of the City of Cape Town. Approved by Council: 09 December 2010, C 98/12/10. Amended by Council: 29 August 2012, C 60/08/12. 

Western Cape Geographical Names Committee. Western Cape policy for the Naming and Renaming of Geographical Features. Cape Town: Western Cape Geographical Names Committee, 2015. 

Policies

South Africa. Department of Arts and Culture. National policy on South African living heritage.  Pretoria: Department of Arts and Culture, 2009. Shelf no. G 68 E.ARTS.09.NATI

South Africa. Department of Arts and Culture. National policy on South African living heritage. First draft, March 2009. Pretoria:  Department of Arts and Culture., 2009.

Manetsi, Thabo. Safeguarding intangible heritage in South Africa: a critique of the Draft national policy on living heritage. In: International journal of intangible heritage, Vol. 6 (2011)

Digitisation

South Africa. Department of Arts and Culture. National policy on the digitisation of heritage resources : final draft for public review. August 2010. V8. Pretoria: Department of Arts and Culture, 2010. Shelf no. G 68 E.ARTS.10.NATI

 

Human remains

South Africa. Department of Arts and Culture. Draft National Policy on the Repatriation and Restitution of Human Remains and Heritage Objects. Pretoria: Department of Arts and Culture, 2017?

Critique

Manetsi, Thabo.  Safeguarding intangible heritage in South Africa: a critique of the Draft national policy on living heritage. International journal of intangible heritage, Vol. 6 (2011).