DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS & SPORT: OVERVIEW
Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport
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Tel: 021 483 9503
Fax: 021 483 9504
Email: dcas.com@pgwc.gov.za

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) encourages excellence and inclusivity in order to unite people through sport and culture and to ensure a creative and active Western Cape. We bind our communities as a strong and unified nation and create opportunities, through funding and collaboration, for participating in most areas of human endeavour. In the process, we are creating conditions for access and mass participation, talent identification and skills development.

Die Departement van Kultuursake en Sport (DKES) moedig uitnemendheid en inklusiwiteit aan ten einde mense by wyse van sport en kultuur te verenig en `n kreatiewe en aktiewe Wes-Kaap te verseker. Ons verbind ons gemeenskappe as `n sterk en verenigde nasie en skep geleenthede deur middel van befondsing en samewerking, tot deelname aan die meeste gebiede van menslike aktiwiteit. In die proses skep ons omstandighede vir toegang en massadeelname, die identifiseer van talent en die ontwikkeling van vaardighede.

ISebe likhuthaza intsulungeko nokungabi namkhethe ukumanya uluntu ngokusebenzisa ezemidlalo nenkcubeko ukuqinisekisa ukuba iNtshona Koloni ihlala inobuchule obungagungqiyo. Uluntu lwethu siyaluhlanganisa ukuba libe sisizwe esimanyeneyo ze sivule amathuba ngezibonelelo zoncedo-mali nobambiswano ukuze abamntu bathathe inxaxheba kwizinto ezahlukeneyo. Sivula amathuba entatho-nxaxheba ngobuninzi, amathuba okubonakaliswa kweetalente kwakunye nophuhliso lwezakhono.

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Initiation Protocol and Guidelines

The Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport promotes the safe and hygienic cultural practice of initiation through the development of appropriate infrastructure at initiation sites throughout the province. Male initiation rites illustrate the transition from boyhood (ubukhwenkwe) to manhood (ubudoda). The initiation practices of amaXhosa, abeSotho and amaHlubi are the most dominant in the Western Cape. No particular age is specified for these rites (males between the ages of 15 and 25 undergo initiation). Initiation is an important social custom that deals with adolescence. The training and preparation provided at the initiation schools enable the transition from childhood behaviour to adulthood. Initiation is one of the few cultural practices that has endured and survived social, economic and political changes over the centuries. The following initiation protocol and guidelines will not only make the initiation practices safer, but will ensure that it adds value to the cultural lives of the communities of the province. Read more

The content on this page was last updated on 21 May 2012