The Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) is the controlling body in the cultural and creative industries. This body is set up with the assistance of the Department of Arts and Culture for cultural and creative sectors in South Africa. It is a non-profit organisation set up to promote and develop the social and economic interests of the cultural and creative industries and to act as the voice of these sectors.
To protect, restore and promote the dignity of the cultural and creative industries practitioners and entrepreneurs through strong partnerships with all economic role players and stakeholders.
To be a reputable and leading South African controlling body of the cultural and creative industries.
CCIFSA Goal:
Well united, recognised, safe and regulated cultural and creative industries of South Africa.
BACKGRUND INFORMATION
In 2009, President Jacob Zuma met with South African cultural and creative industry stakeholders and role-players in order to understand their challenges with a view to finding comprehensive responses. At that historic meeting it was agreed, among other things, that there was a need to organise the sector, invest in its development and address funding alignment. As a result, an interim executive committee was appointed to work towards the establishment of a fully-fledged Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA). With its primary mission being to represent all sectors of the cultural and creative industries.
In appointing the interim committee, the Ministry of Arts and Culture (Ministry) stated, “We are embarking on this approach in order to assist in the formalisation of the cultural and creative sectors, a role player in the economy, and to create an enabling environment for the growth of the sectors and to make them easier to fund”. CCIFSA is therefore set up to be the voice of the cultural and creative industries, and will focus on areas where there are barriers to growth facing the sectors, such as access to finance, skills, export markets, regulations, intellectual property and infrastructure. Action will be taken forward in these areas through the work of a small number of “task and complete” working groups.
