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A presentation by the
Heritage Umbrella Body (HUB) Steering Committee delegates
to the
Arts & Culture PPC.
Condensed Vers 20 Jun 2006
A National Trust for South Africa
A vision for the future of our Heritage
20 Jun 2006AGENDA
What is “The Hub” ?
How do we define ‘Heritage’
Who’s responsible?
Reality Check 1
Where are the Heritage Sites
Have we made mistakes ?
On the Ground
National Heritage Umbrella
Cartoon
UK National Trust
English Heritage
Other overseas sites
What local models exist
How organisations qualify
What can we do
What do we need
Enthusiasm
Contact-details
What is the HUB ?At this stage we are a group of Heritage Organisations based in
the Peninsula dedicated to the creation of a Heritage Umbrella Body and include :
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The Historical Society of Cape Town The Josephine Mill
The Friends of Mostert’s Mill Mosterts Mill Mowbray
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Hout Bay & Llandudno Heritage Trust
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Muizenberg Historical & Conservation Society Het Posthuis
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Kalk Bay Historical and Conservation Society Kalk Bay harbour
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Simon’s Town Historical Society Palace Barracks
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How do we define
HeritageDict:-
What is or may be inherited.
That which we will pass on to future generations.
SA’s Heritage
Where do the responsibilities lie?
The Paradox of Ownership
Arts & CultureEnvironment & Tourism
Cultural HeritageNatural Heritage
NHRANEMA
Potential for confusion or even conflictor worse still.....
Neglect and irrecoverable loss of valuabe heritage assets.
SA’s National Heritage Estate
• National & Provincial Parks
• Museums
• Heritage Sites (assets)
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.
Means that -
• Insufficient conservation will take place.• Few sites will be conserved.• Heritage tourism opportunities and jobs will not materialise.• Many sites will be irrevocably lost.
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.
The sad fact is -
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.
if you don’t use it you’ll lose it!
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.
however -
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.
If you don’t know you had it -
you wont even miss it!
SA’s Heritage Conservation Dilemma.Where do we find “heritage”?
What are we actually looking for?
The sites are diverse
Our history stretches through recorded time
and beyond - to the origins of man
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Cape St Blaise Cave . Mossel Bay
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Tourist attraction Khoi-San “village” next to cave
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The Post Huis after restoration by Muizenberg Historical Society. NGO
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Boschendal a tourism drawcard
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Another possible Heritage Jewel ? ‘Kronendal’ the oldest surviving farm in the Country.
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Many children have never seen cattle like these once grazed here.
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Cattle like those you have just seen were tended by slaves, the ancestors of this man who still lives nearby but no longer works on the farm which the owner wants to sell to developers.
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Recently a restaurant – today, the magnificent homestead is an estate agents sales office
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New Hout Bay Fire Station net to Kronendal.
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There are a few successes.
Heritage Square. CT CBD
Restored 18th Century Town Houses
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Before
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.....After
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Mamre’s historic water mill - almost destroyed by fire recently.
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Mamre Mission Church
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If we then ask - ‘Where can we find the evidence of our past’?
Throughout the country. Particularly in and around our urban communities, where cultural history has its roots and where, in some cases, local organisations already exist to help preserve their heritage.
What is happening on the ground in communities?
Reality Check
With a small purse you can only save so much
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Mamre 2005
Behind the buildings seen on previous slide
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Have we made mistakes !
New BOE Bldg V&A Waterfront
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2001, the restored remnants of Chavonne’s Battery c.1724The second oldest structure in Cape Town. Preserved for the
public at a cost to the developer of R10M+
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A year or so later......
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Today it is closed .........
It is easy for authorities to ‘demand the earth’ if they don't have to pay!
It was preserved - but there was no viable business plan to sustain it at the time of its inception. It could be saved at more expense but it may remain
a ten million Rand lemon!
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We are talking about a huge Asset Management Problem, and World-wide, governments have not been equal to the challenge
without the help of the public and their community organisations!
What is happening on the ground in our communities?
In practice - In South Africa, with impunity, you can: -
Desecrate sites with graffiti.
Scala Battery Simonstown
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Neglect
Fast Fout – Hout Bay
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Flagrantly destroy.....our heritage.The site of the Noordhoek ‘Look out’ recently knocked down by the TMNP
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We are losing our assets daily and we are losing the potential benefit of :
Heritage TourismInternational & Domestic
Why can’t our communities get their acts together?
Reality :-
If you want to conserve or restore heritage sites in your community you will have to undertake a lengthy, complicated and costly process.
Not for the faint hearted!
And the cost will probably exceed:-•Prepare a Concept Plan
•Motivate the grading of the site
•Environmental Impact Report
•Heritage Impact Assessment
•Prepare a Conservation Plan
•Archaeological Permits and digs
•Local Authority Permits
•PHRA permits
R15000
R10000
R20000
R10000
R20000
R25000
R?
R?
+/- R100 000
….and that is just for the initial:-
Paperwork.
No wonder we are losing our heritage!
Legislation should help to encourage:
Heritage Tourism
Heritage Terrorism
How can we help communities to realise their heritage projects?
By creating an “Umbrella” body which will help community based heritage organisations to interface with the heritage authorities.
• Help identify potential heritage projects.• Help to motivate Grading Applications. • Help to create Conservation Plans.• Help create Sustainable Business Plans.• Help to find resources and raise funds
A National Heritage Trust Umbrella
• What would be the objective ?– To help save South Africa’s Heritage by using
external leverage & resources currently untapped.– To use our heritage as a Tourism drawcard to
educate current and future generations of South Africans and overseas visitors.
– To define, explain and promote our heritage in such a way that it is understood and appreciated by all.
A National Heritage Trust Umbrella
• How can it be achieved ?
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12th Jan 1895
Octavia Hill
Robert Hunter
Hardwicke Rawnsley
12th Jan 1895
Octavia Hill
Robert Hunter
Hardwicke Rawnsley
Formed the
UK ‘National Trust’
An Example:- The National Trust
100 years old and now protect:
• 244000 hectares of land & 925km Coastline
• 165 Major Historic Houses & 19 Castles
• 276 Gardens, deer or landscape parks.
• 431 Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
• 31 National Nature Reserves
• 60,000 Archaeological sites
An Example:- The UK National Trust
They employ:
• 3,000 permanent staff
• 4,000 seasonal staff
• 37,000 volunteers
Their economic contribution to Britain, as one of their biggest tourism drawcards, is enormous!
They are the largest custodian of private land in the UK, an NGO, registered as a charity.
However:-
The UK National Trust has evolved over time and now has multiple regions (or provinces)
and a highly developed
infrastructure.
But it all started in a little community 100
years ago
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The UK Heritage Statutory Regulator
ENGLISH HERITAGE
However
Right now an organisation like the UK National Trust is out of reach!
We have to look elsewhere.
...but we can look at other overseas examples, small as well as large.