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| Title: | Heritage Day |
| When: | 24.09.2012 |
| Location: | nationwide |
| Description: | Heritage Day commemorates the World Heritage Convention signed in 1972. The mission of the Heritage Convention is for countries to: · conserve the natural and cultural heritage in their territories, and · encourage states to nominate sites within their territories for inclusion on the World Heritage List. In South Africa, its significance is to recognise various aspects of South African culture which include creative expression, historical inheritance, language, culturally specific food and the land in which we live. Natural and cultural heritage include monuments, architectural works, sculpture and painting, structures of an archeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and groups of buildings. Also included are sites of outstanding universal value from an historical, aesthetic, and ethnological point of view to geological and physiographic formations and natural sites. Of the 936 cultural and natural properties forming part of the World Heritage List, which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value, eight can be found in South Africa. The need to acknowledge this rich and varied cultural heritage is knowing that it has profound power to help build our nation. South African Heritage Resource Agency. 111 Harrington Street, Cape Town, 8001. Tel: (021) 462 4502. Fax: (021) 462 4509. Website: www.sahra.org.za Indigenous Knowledge Series. www.info.gov.za/aboutsa/holidays.htm and http://whc.unesco.org/en/list |
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