Briefing on Strategic Plan and Budgeting for 200809 Mrs Ntombenhle Nkosi Chief Executive Officer Tue

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Briefing on Strategic Plan and Budgeting for
2008/09 Mrs Ntombenhle Nkosi Chief Executive
OfficerTuesday, 13 May 2008Arts and Culture
Portfolio CommitteeParliament, Cape Town
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PART A

• INTRODUCTION

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Intro

• Legislative Mandate
• PanSALB derives its legislative mandate from the
  Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,
  the PanSALB Act 59 of 1995 as amended in 1999 and
  the PanSALB Regulations.
• The powers and functions of the Board are to
• (a) Make recommendations with regard to any
  proposed or existing legislation, practice and
  policy dealing directly or indirectly with
  language matters at any level of government, and
  with regard to any proposed amendments to or the
  repeal or replacement of such legislation,
  practice and policy

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Intro

• The powers and functions of the Board
• are to
• (b) Make recommendations to organs of state at
  all levels of government where it considers such
  action advisable for the adoption of measures
  aimed at the promotion of multilingualism within
  the framework of the Constitution

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Intro

• The powers and functions (cont.)
• (c) Actively promote an awareness of
  multilingualism as a national resource
• (d) Actively promote the development of the
  previously marginalised languages
• (e) Initiate studies and research aimed at
  promoting and creating conditions for the
  development and use of
• (i) all the official languages of the Republic
• (ii) Khoe and San languages and,
• (iii) South African Sign Language.
• (f) Promote and ensure respect for all other
  languages commonly used by communities in South
  Africa

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Intro

• The powers and functions (cont.)
• (g) Advise on the co-ordination of language
  planning in South Africa
• (h) Facilitate co-operation with language
  planning agencies outside South Africa
• (i) Establish Provincial Language Committees and
  National Bodies to advise it on any language
  matter affecting a province or a specific
  language and
• (j) Establish National Lexicography Units to
  operate as companies limited by guarantee under
  section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act 61 of
  1973) and allocate funds to the units for the
  fulfilment of their functions.

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Intro

• The powers and functions (cont.)
• In terms of Section 4 of the PanSALB Act, the
  the Board is an independent organ of state,
  subject only to the Constitution and its founding
  legislation and must perform its duties without
  fear, favour or prejudice. All organs of state
  are enjoined to cooperate with the Board and may
  not interfere with the function of the Board in
  its execution of its mandate.

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Intro

• Vision
• To achieve the equal status and use of all
  official languages of South Africa
• Mission
• To provide for the recognition, the promotion and
  the development of all South African languages,
  with particular attention being given to those
  languages that were previously marginalized
• Values
• Respect for all languages in South Africa
• Equal treatment of all languages in South Africa
• Non discrimination on the basis of language

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Intro..Purpose

• Create conditions for
• Multilingualism by developing and promoting equal
  use and status of all official languages
• National unity and respect for the Bill of Rights
  as it pertains to respect and cultural tolerance
  of all languages and restoration of dignity of
  formally marginalised languages

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IntroPurpose

• See to the Implementation of
• Language policies at all levels of government
• Language development plans, projects and
  initiatives
• Appropriate research in support of language
  development
• All measures meant to protect and support
  Constitutional democracy with respect to language

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IntroPurpose

• Be agents of change by
• Promoting public dialogue to change mindsets and
  attitudes to language
• Promoting the value of indigenous languages
• Monitoring the application of language
  legislation
• Advising government on linguistic matters

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PART B

• SERVICE DELIVERY

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Summary of Immediate Past Performances 2007/2008
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Summary of Immediate Past Performances 2007/2008
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Summary of Immediate Past Performances 2007/2008
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Summary of Immediate Past Performances 2007/2008
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PART c

• Strategic approach
• 2008-2011

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Strategic Summary and Problem Definition

• The PanSALB management has embarked on a
  three-year strategic and business planning
  process.
• Deep introspection within the organization has
  highlighted areas of both concern and opportunity
  that will have to be focused on as PanSALB is
  revitalized.
• Key strategic, organizational and operational
  measures are recommended in PanSALBs programme
  of action, which it is believed adequately
  supports resource requirement projections being
  tabled before the Treasury.
• In line with the government planning processes
  PanSALB has since developed a comprehensive
  planning cycle.

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Strategic Summary and Problem Definition (Cont..)

• Problem definition
• The PanSALB Act needs to be amended to include
  compliance and enforcement.
• Limited funding has negatively affected PanSALB
  delivery.

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Strategic Summary and Problem Definition..

• The following are PanSALBs strategic goals.
  These will inform all Annual Operational Plans
  for 2008-11
• To raise the public profile, visibility and
  influence of PanSALB and the organizations
  impact on its constitutional mandate backed by
  cooperative governance and partnerships
• To introduce enforcement and monitoring of
  language policy implementation in addition to the
  ongoing role of language policy development and
  monitoring
• To focus on language education, with emphasis on
  enabling mainstream economic access to previously
  disadvantaged language groups
• Actively to promote, develop and empower the
  official languages, with more emphasis on the
  previously marginalized languages, the Khoe and
  San languages and SASL, to raise their status to
  that of lasting, visible symbols provincially and
  nationally, e.g. through a language monument to
  showcase South Africas language development
  history among local and international tourists

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Strategic Summary and Problem Definition..

• To influence, promote and enforce multilingualism
  in all organs of society
• To perform a critical appreciation of its
  effectiveness by developing an operational model
  that enhances this

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Summary of 2008/09 Annual Operational Plans

• Review the organogram to enable better service
  delivery.
• Develop a full integration of HR, Finance and
  Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems.
• Audit and drafting of policies within PanSALB
  with emphasis on HR, Finance and SCM to ensure
  full compliance.
• Implementations of Performance Management System
  and staff retention strategy.
• Raise public awareness and profile of PanSALB
  through media relations, stakeholder relations
  and marketing initiatives

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Summary of 2008/09 Annual Operational Plans

• Develop and implement an integrated IT Master
  Systems Plan to include business continuity.
• Through the Provincial Language Committees
  PanSALB will position itself at the forefront of
  language policy development and implementation.
• Coordinate internal structures to achieve the
  best synergies through our provincial offices.
• To create a Fundraising Committee to leverage
  private sector relationships for more funding.
• Develop stakeholder relationship management
  strategies to facilitate delivery.

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Summary of 2008/09 Annual Operational Plans

• Engage Parliament with a view to enable PanSALBs
  Act to tighten aspects of its legislation on
  enforcement, against non-complying organisations.
  For example to ensure compliance by departments
  to deliver on the decision of Cabinet to
  establish language units with a view to
  implementing the National Language Policy
  Framework, PanSALB must be empowered to enforce
  compliance.
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• To review and reconcile the PanSALB Act to ensure
  consistency with the Public Service Act.
• Embark on vigorous awareness campaigns across all
  governments spheres and private sector on the
  mandate of PanSALB.
• To review the remuneration structure of the
  members of PLCs, NLBs and NLUs in order to
  attract quality contributors

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Summary of 2008/09 Annual Operational Plans

• Promote the value of mother tongue education
  through training and the awarding of bursaries.
• Intensify our drive to deal with linguistic human
  rights violations through holding awareness
  raising Izimbizo and public hearings.
• Celebrating important calender events in the
  promotion of marginalised languages.
• Launch of the revised spelling and orthography
  rules.
• Standardised term lists and glossaries (surveys
  and research studies conducted).

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Summary of 2008/09 Annual Operational Plans

• To develop writers in all official languages
  (hold workshops for authors in all genres).
• Creative writing workshops
• Improve standard of translators and interpreters
  (restructure and revamp the PanSALB translation
  and interpretation unit).
• Intensify NLB projects aimed at promoting
  marginalised languages (workshop for parents of
  deaf children and South African Sign Language
  Interpreters).
• Launch of South African Sign Language teaching
  and learning materials.
• Training of Khoi and San language instructors.

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PanSALB Proposed Corporate Structure
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Costing of Strategic Plan
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Costing of Strategic Plan
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Costing of Strategic Plan
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PART d

• 2008/09 Budget and capital project requirements

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Past Spending Patterns

• A breakdown of PanSALBs budget in the past few
  years demonstrates an upward trend in salary
  spending patterns, particularly moving from
  21.55 in 2003 to 24.66 in 2007.
• As far as direct spending on the core business is
  concerned, an average 47.62 over the past five
  years was dedicated to this expense. The biggest
  chunk, 36.53, went to the National Lexicography
  Units which are charged with the development and
  publication of dictionaries in all the official
  languages. The balance has been utilised by the
  National Language Bodies and the Provincial
  Language Committees to revise, inter alia, the
  spelling and orthography rules as well as to
  standardise terminology.

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Summary of Past Spending Patterns in the past 9
years
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Committed Funds 2007/08
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Budget Allocation for 2008/09
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Budget Allocation for 2008/09..
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Budget Allocation for 2008/09
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Challenges with 2008/09 Grant Allocation

• The current allocation of R47,451,000.00 does
  allow for delivery of projects contained in the
  Annual Operational Plans which are costed at
  R151,968,000.00.
• Expenditure trend shows that PanSALB is being
  under funded.
• The PanSALB Act section (a) (b) (c) compels the
  Board to establish and support National
  Lexicography Units, Provincial Language
  Committees and National Language Bodies. The
  Board is unable to support these structures as
  required due to lack of funding. This results in
  non-compliance.

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Challenges with 2008/09 Grant Allocation

• Due to lack of funding the Board is unable to
  address serious non-compliance issues as observed
  in previous audits i.e. Paying appropriate
  salaries to address rapid staff turnover, having
  integrated systems and policies, etc.
• The Board is unable to deliver on its core
  mandate as it is grossly under funded.
• The continued under funding of PanSALB sets it up
  for guaranteed overspending and thus criminalizes
  the Board.

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Challenges with 2008/09 Grant Allocation

• No formal communication of PanSALB allocation has
  been received yet.
• First trench of grant allocation deposited to
  PanSALB account without any formal communication
  only on 2nd week of April 2008. This has had
  adverse effects on our planning and continued
  operations.
• No formal approval of PanSALB plans due to
  absence of the board
• CEO notified on 12 February 2008 that the Board
  was appointed in October 2007.
• List of Board names received on the 19th of March
  2008
• The Board has not been inaugurated yet.

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Capital Projects

• Mzansi Media Mecca
• The project involves the establishment of a
  printing plant with a focus on printing
  newspapers published in indigenous languages, it
  is also envisaged that this plant will be a
  resource to the newly established Writers
  Guilds, which will facilitate mass production of
  written materials on African Languages to support
  Cabinets literacy drive.
• The project involves purchasing of printing
  plant.
• The estimated cost of the project is R10-million.
  

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Capital Projects

• South African Language Village
• The Language Village is a living mosaic that
  artistically preserves the deepest faculties of
  each language and yet brings out the wholeness
  and depth of their commonality at the core.
• The village will host PanSALB offices and the
  multilingual institute aimed at recording and
  preserving our language heritage.
• The project is estimated to cost around
  R50-millionin the current year which cost include
  exploration, research and purchasing of land.

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Capital Project..SA Language Village Funding of
the project

• Government funding (Cap Ex)
• Corporate sponsorships (Cap Ex)
• Entrance fees (tourism) operational income
• Advertising revenue operational income
• Rental space (retail office income)
• Learning Center and Theatre fees

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Language Village Colossus
Translation Interpretation
Status Language
Linguistics
Theatre
Lexicography
Language in Education
Recreational Area
Hotel
Office Conference Space
Learning Center
Literature Filming
Language Standardisation
Terminology
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Language Village Positioning
Cradle Of Humankind
Constitutional Hill
Language Village
Hector Peterson Memorial
Apartheid Museum
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Capital Projects

• Promoting multilingualism through branded wall
  mirrors
• In 2007 PanSALB celebrated a decade of
  multilingualism and nation building and awarded
  recognition to various stakeholders who have
  contributed in this regard.
• It is envisaged that this project will be a
  public private partnership that involves erecting
  branded wall mirrors in various communities
  across the country.
• The project will benefit community members as
  walls that are mainly attached to houses will be
  rented over a three year period.

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Capital Projects

• Promoting multilingualism through branded wall
  mirrors
• This will be a marketing opportunity for all
  stakeholders involved but would also promote
  multilingualism and indigenise South African
  landscape as we prepare for the 2010
• The project is estimated at R21-millionon over a
  three year period.

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Annexure A
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• Thank You