Question NW941 to the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture
31 March 2022 - NW941
Van Dyk, Ms V to ask the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture
(1).Whether, given that the purpose of the state is to create and/or provide an enabling environment, he has been furnished with a legal opinion that the Cultural Institutions Act, Act 119 of 1998, is an anathema to this very principle; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details; (2). whether he has been furnished with a legal opinion that the specified Act is unconstitutional, in that it denies funding to those independent institutions that are not state-owned; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
The Honourable Member speaks of the legal opinion which we do not know. We have not received as such.