Overview of DSAC Freedom Park Museum Annual Performance
This presentation outlines the mandate, legislative mandate, non-financial information, financial allocation, audit outcomes, and composition of council at the DSAC Freedom Park Museum. It details the constitutional mandate to honor heroes and heroines, legislative framework, financial achievements, and council expertises. The report also includes audit outcomes and challenges faced by the museum.
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DSAC OVERVIEW PRESENTATION DSAC OVERVIEW PRESENTATION FREEDOM PARK MUSEUM FREEDOM PARK MUSEUM ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN AND ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN AND ANNUALREPORT ANNUALREPORT 24 October 2023 Acting DIRECTOR Acting DIRECTOR- - GENERAL GENERAL
PRESENTATION OUTLINE MANDATE AND LEGISLATIVE MANDATE 1. 2. NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION 3. FINANCIAL ALLOCATION 4. AUDIT OUTCOME 5. COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL 6. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES 7. GOVERNANCE ENGAGEMENTS 8. STAFF COMPOSITION 9. SUMMARY OF STAFF COMPOSITION 10. CHALLENGES & DSAC INTERVENTION
MANDATE THE CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE RELEVANT TO FREEDOM PARK INCLUDES: Honor the heroes and heroines of the struggles for freedom and humanity by memorialization and storytelling that narrates a story spanning a period of 3.6 billion years through the following seven epochs: Earth, ancestors, peopling, resistance and colonization, industrialization and urbanization, nationalism and struggle, and nation-building and continent-building. Freedom Park is governed by inter alia the following legal framework.
LEGISLATIVE MANDATE THE LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY MANDATE The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 108 of 1996. Public Finance Management Act, 1 of 1999. National Heritage Resources Act, 25 of 1999. Public Audit Act No. 25 of 2004. Cultural Institutions Act, 119 of 1998 effective from 01 April 2009.
NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 ( Q1) 81% 86% 92% Achieved 19% 3% 8% Not Achieved
FINANCIAL ALLOCATION 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Details R 000 R 000 R 000 Baseline allocation 96 312 99 522 105 341 Infrastructure grant - - - Total income 96 312 99 522 105 351
AUDIT OUTCOME Details 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 Audit Outcome Unqualified with findings Unqualified with findings Qualified (A dispute on the audit outcomes has been lodged against the AGSA by the Freedom Park. Matter still pending finalisation)
COMPOSITION OF COUNCIL NO NAME/SURNAME EXPERTISE RACE GENDER Council experience PHD : Economics and Finance 1 Dr BWJ Langa: ( Chairperson) African Male Ms. Rammbwa: (Deputy Chairperson) Council experience 2 African Female Law and Financial experience Law experience Council experience 3 Adv. NJ Bleki: Member of Council African Female Council experience Heritage conservation, Management and Policy development 4 Ms. L Robinson: Member of Council White Female Council experience PHD Philosophy and finance experience 5 Prof S Cooper: Member of Council Indian Male
NO NAME/SURNAME EXPERTISE RACE GENDER Law and Governance Experience Council experience Indian Male Mr E Daniels: Member of Council 6 Council experience Business analysis , Community development African Female Ms. Barbara Watson : Member of Council 7 Council experience Project Management and Planning African Female Ms. MMS Mothapo: Member of Council 8 Producer, Management experience, Marketing and Communications African Male Mr M Tsedu: Member of Council 9
OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES Oversight Activities 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 (Q1) 11 11 9 Number of current board members 13 7 2 Number of council meetings held Attendance rate of council meetings Number Council Committees meetings held Attendance rate of Council Committee meetings Amount spent on remuneration of Council Remunerative rate (per day) paid to Non-Executive council members 97,5% 27 100% 907 709 1742 89% 33 96% 629 053 1742 94% 9 100% 54 428 1742 385 317 961 739 435 912 Amount spent on travelling and accommodation of council members 4 9 4 9 1 2 Number of risk committee meetings held Number of audit committee meetings held Attendance rate of audit committee meetings Number Management meetings held Number of meetings held between management and the rest of the staff 95% 9 1 95% 16 5 100% 4 1 8 5 2 Number of meetings held between management and union representatives
GOVERNACE ENGAGEMENTS STRUCTURE MEETINGS HELD Heritage Sector Forum 1 August 2023 CEO s Forum 30 August 2023 Chairpersons Forum 2 June 2023
STAFF COMPOSITION PUBLIC ENTITIES STAFF DEMOGRAPHICS Indian Male Female 0 0 0 0 0 0 Coloured White African Female 1 1 9 Total CATEGORY Top Management Senior Management Professionally qualified and experienced specialists in mid-management Skilled technical and academically qualified workers, junior management, supervisors, foremen and superintendents Semi-skilled and discretionary decision making Male 0 0 1 Female 0 0 0 Male 0 0 0 Female 0 0 1 Male 0 2 12 Male 0 2 13 Female 1 1 11 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 11 6 12 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 9 12 Unskilled and defined decision making Contract Staff Persons with Disabilities Interns Total 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 4 4 0 0 35 3 5 0 1 41 4 4 0 0 38 3 6 0 1 47
SUMMARY OF STAFF COMPOSITION Total Staff Compliment Gender Race Male Female African Coloured Indian White 85 Staff compliment 38 47 76 3 2 4 Vacancy rate 10,5%
CHALLENGES & DSAC INTERVENTION NO CHALLENGES DSAC INTERVENTION No salary increments to employees for four (4) years The Entity to consider a once off bonus to employees to increase moral, if the salary increase, was not possible. 1 Ninety-nine (99) year old lease agreement of Freedom Park Meeting between Department of Public Works (DPW) and DSAC to assist with the process of transfer of the land to the Entity and way forward on the pending matter between DPW and Freedom Park. 2 The lease liability is over 5 billion compared to assets of 5 million of the Entity
