The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) is a department of the

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with responsibility for

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, culture, and

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. It was created in June 2019 by the merger of the Department of Arts and Culture with Sport and Recreation South Africa. As of 2024 the Sport, Arts and Culture Minister was Gayton McKenzie.https://www.dsac.gov.za/qt-ministers DSAC and its predecessors provided more than million for the maintenance of

Liliesleaf Farm Liliesleaf Farm, also spelt Lilliesleaf and also known simply as Liliesleaf, is a location in northern Johannesburg, South Africa, which is most noted for its use as a safe house for African National Congress (ANC) activists during the apartheid ...

, a

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of great significance to the history of the

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and the liberation struggle against

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, from 2008 until 2021. At that time the museum was owned and run by the Liliesleaf Trust, headed by founder and CEO Nicolas Wolpe. After a dispute about funding, Mthethwa said that a process had begun towards declaring Liliesleaf Museum "as a

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in accordance with the Cultural Institutions Act". This would enable

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to oversee the museum.

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