CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 5 Year Fixed-Term Contract: Job Ref No: NAC/CEO/2023 REMUNERATION: {Level 15: DPSA-SMS} The National Arts Council is inviting interested applicants who meet the criteria to apply for the vacancy of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution and implementation of the strategy of the organisation […]
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Indigenous South African handcraft and many other cultural traditions need to be recognised, honoured, and maintained in the modern world where cultural activities are slowly diluted. Especially because traditional African handicrafts have played an important role in various South African cultural practices going back to the 17th century. However, due to numerous unfortunate circumstances, many […]
Please find the list of successful applicants for the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 4). *Please scroll left and right to view the entire table CRAFT INDIVIDUALS Project Number Organisation/Individual Name Project Name Province Amount Granted Discipline 7170801 MZIWANELE KGOTSO MKHUZANGWE FELT AND FABRIC Free State R300 000,00 CRAFT 6996201 Mbulelo Ntshali Indigenous Jewellery & […]
The National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is pleased to announce the list of successful applicants who responded to the 2023 Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP4) call for funding across seven (7) arts disciplines namely music, literature, visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance and multidiscipline. The Call opened on the 20th of February 2023 and […]
Please find the list of successful applicants for the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP 4). *Please scroll left and right to view the entire table CRAFT INDIVIDUALS Project Number Organisation/Individual Name Project Name Province Amount Granted Discipline 7170801 MZIWANELE KGOTSO MKHUZANGWE FELT AND FABRIC Free State R300 000,00 CRAFT 6996201 Mbulelo Ntshali Indigenous Jewellery & […]
The National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is pleased to announce the International Bursary Funding outcomes. Funding is conditional upon the applicants’ completion of outstanding administrative requirements and conditions before contracting. Grant notification letters to successful applicants will be sent in the next few days. The NAC received a total of two hundred and […]
The National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) is pleased to announce the NAC Annual Project Funding Call for applications for the 2023-2024 Financial Year. We hereby invite individual arts practitioners and registered arts organisations and community arts centres to apply for funding. Only one application will be supported from both a natural person (individual) […]
Jesse Diepeveen was close to graduating with her theatre degree when she began to contemplate her future. She had an idea to create a satirical theatre production that would talk about how women’s bodies, especially Black women, were viewed as sexual objects to be devoured and thrown out. This idea manifested in a theatre production. […]
The National Arts Council of South Africa has learned through third parties of the intended march to our offices by the South African United Cultural & Creative Industries Federation (SAUCCIF) to be held on 8 May 2023. SAUCCIF has not officially communicated to the NAC about the intended march. To date, the NAC has held […]
Following the announcement of outcomes for the Arts Organisation Support Funding (AOSF) on 13 April 2023, we can confirm that unsuccessful applicants are currently being issued with formal rejection letters stating one of the three categories of rejections that may apply to an applicant. These three categories are Compliance, Artistic Merit and Budgetary Constraints. The […]








