By Ayanda Dlamini | 2019-01-21
FOLLOWING the SWAMA Executive’s first scheduled meeting of the year which was held last Saturday in Mbabane; the association in its membership mobilisation, as well as decentralisation drive, has decided to establish its regional branches with immediate effect.
According to the President of the association, Melusi ‘Zox’ Dlamini, the regional branches were meant to take the association to the grassroots, where a lot of arts and arts-related activities were already taking place informally.
Dlamini said this exercise was also meant to decentralise the association’s impact and services from the Mbabane-Manzini corridor into all corners of the country for the ultimate nurturing and development of artists based within and outside the said corridor.
“More than anything, this exercise is also meant to promote the arts at grassroots levels into becoming not just a past-time activity but an alternate economic activity; hence comprehensive arts business development plans modelled around each region’s socio-economic profile will be developed and implemented,” said Dlamini.
To implement this exercise, the association has drafted a plan.
“SWAMA Regional Committees (RCs) will be elected by SWAMA members or artists in Hhohho, Manzini, Shiselweni, and Lubombo regions. The RCs will consista of a regional chair; who will be appointed by the SWAMA National Executive Committee (NEC), and three elected members.
“The three elected members will be elected by the SWAMA members and/or artists at regional AGMs, whose dates will be announced in due course. Setting up of these structures is expected to be concluded within the first half of 2019,” Dlamini articulated.
Interested
The SWAMA NEC has also invited interested and capable SWAMA members, artists, arts managers, arts activists, and interested individuals who wish to be considered for appointment as regional chair to send in their Expressions of Interest (EOIs) with immediate effect, attaching their arts profile or CV, as well as a brief cover letter that motivates why they should be considered.
“Aspirants should note that the position is a voluntary post not a remunerated one. Aspirants should state the region they are interested to head as regional chair, and should preferably reside in or originate from that region. They should send to Bongani ‘Tizalami’ Dube or me,” said the president.
From the EOIs received, Dlamini said the NEC would use its own discretion to appoint the regional chairs.
The NEC and the successful regional chairs would then work on the dates for the regional AGMs where the SWAMA membership would choose the rest of the SWAMA Regional Committees (RCs).
The full mandate of the Regional Committees will be unveiled and openly discussed at the regional AGMs, and will be duly adopted through a constitutional amendment.
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