Mthethwa calls for digital platform to store work of African creative sectorMthethwa calls for digital platform to store work of African creative sector

• Published date: 09 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, has called for a worldwide, Africa-based digital platform to store the work of the creative sector on the continent.

'There is a dire need to have a worldwide, Africa based digital platform that houses all online creative arts, copyright and patents, and sporting platforms for control and sustainability of the collective intellectual property of the African Union (AU) member States' intangible heritage,' the Minister said on Monday.

He was addressing the launch of Africa Month under the theme, 'Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent for a Better Africa and a Better World'.

The Minister said South Africa understands that strengthening resilience in nutrition and food security on the continent, in order to create a better Africa and a better world, is inextricably dependent on land.

He emphasised the importance to develop modern agriculture for increased proactivity and production by radically transforming African agriculture to enable the continent to feed itself and be a major player as a net food exporter.

'Land remains a highly contentious matter in the backdrop of land dispossession in the entire...