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A new SACO contract and iteration is secured; and an update on empowering South African creative sector MSMEs to be great and showcasing it at the United Nations in New York.

A CAPACITY building workshop series, delivered by the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) on behalf of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), reached more than 400 creatives in rural and urban areas, and online, over the past two months.

When I took on the role of SACO Executive Director five years ago, I never imagined what would transpire in the intervening years. COVID-19; the meteoric rise of AI; digitalization at scale; radical new trends; and many social, economic and cultural shifts.

On behalf of the South African government and the people of South Africa, we express our earnest gratitude for your participation and invaluable contribution to the SACO International Conference 2022.

Join us for a capacity building workshop with Saki Zamxaka on financial literacy and access to SMME/MSME funding.

Join us for a virtual capacity building workshop with Prof. Margie Cullen who will discuss the Industrial Development Corporation’s Entrepreneurship Development Initiative.

Join us this Thursday for an awesome for an in-person masterclass with photographer and journalist, Victor Dlamini. Victor will cover the topics of: *Essentials in photography *How to make it as a photographer *Lessons and experiences of a practitioner and more.

Join Akhona Tota this Friday at the SACO coaching for creativity workshop in Mmabatho, former capital city of the North-West Province.

Live event technical and production services highlights a particular sector within the Cultural and Creative Industry. Those individuals and businesses, supporting and enabling a broad range of production including performing arts, music, festivals and other events. This is an important, but often overlooked, economic sub-sector within the CCIs. The purpose of this survey is to gather better quality data about the sector to make recommendations to support economic opportunities.

Legendary artists Lizo Pemba and Dolla Sapeta have teamed up to share the craft of their art as part of the South African Cultural Observatory capacity building workshop series.

THE creative economy, often synonymous with cultural economy, has enjoyed heightened scrutiny among academics in recent decades, generating a growing body of research and practice that increasingly spans the globe.

Indigenous languages seem to be on the decline as African people increasingly adopt the English language as their mother tongue over their indigenous languages.