Heritage Projects
 

1. Activities / Projects

  •  Arts, heritage institutions
    • Establishment of new museums
  • Conservation bodies
    • Proclamation of new heritage institutions (to redress neglected histories)
  • Promotion of heritage preservation in the RSA
    • New commemorative structures and recasting (reinterpretation) of existing monuments and museums
    • Grant payments to organisations that preserve and promote heritage.
  • South African Geographical Names Council
    • Naming and renaming.
    • Authoritative geographical names database.
2. Services
Overview of the Procedure for Changing Geographical Names  
Approved Place Names  
South African Geographical Names Council Information Brochure  
South African Geographical Names Council: Handbook on Geographical Names
93KB
Application Form for proposed new geographical name and/or change of existing geographical name 
56KB
South African Geographical Names Council Act, 1998 (No. 118 of 1998)
326KB
Declared Cultural Institutions  
South African Geographical Names Council: Annual Report 31 March 2001
333KB
Government Gazette: Approval of Official Geographical Names (30 June 2006)
2,046KB
South African Geographical Names System  
3. Heritage Month Launch Pictures:
01 September 2006
4. Underwater Cultural Heritage
Information Kit UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
518KB

UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

109KB
Underwater Cultural Heritage Questionnaire
56KB
5. O.R. Tambo Renaming Ceremony
27 October 2006
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