Appendix 6 - International Music Council

traditional and indigenous music of South Africa and the relief of poverty,
distress and exploitation.
• To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above
purpose and to this end to bring together representatives of statutory
authorities, volunteer organizations and individuals engaged in the
furtherance of the above purposes.
• To assist artists/producers in tracing their intellectual rights. To promote the
independent historically disadvantaged producers and production companies
through empowerment initiatives.
• To obtain and collect royalties and receive money and funds, by way of
contributions, donations, affiliation fees, subscriptions, legacies, grants and
any other lawful method, and accept and receive gifts of property of any
description (whether subject to any special trust or not).
• To procure and provide information.
• Procure to be written and print, publish, issue and circulate gratuitously or otherwise
any report or periodicals, books, pamphlets, leaflets or other documents.
• To promote, encourage and undertake experimental work.
• To encourage ownership and control of traditional and indigenous South
African music by persons from the historically disadvantaged communities
through the provision of education, technical, managerial, business and legal
resources.
• To promote small, medium and micro business within the music industry.
• To ensure competition within the music industry, for traditional and
indigenous South African music, through promoting a larger share of airtime
broadcast on the airways in the Republic of South Africa.
• To ensure that in relation to legislative enactments of the music industry in
particular the traditional and indigenous artistes and musicians are duly taken
into account.
• To promote the empowerment and advancement of women in the music
industry, in particular the traditional and indigenous women artiste musicians
and producers.
• To promote youth development in the music industry and, in particular, in
the areas of traditional and indigenous South Africa music, through
programmes, bursaries and scholarship.
With a seed grant from the Department of Arts and Culture, the Trust has been able
to establish offices and begin to operationalise its vision and objectives. Zakheni
Music Trust started running music workshops in the major cities of the country like
Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, East London and
Pretoria from January 2001.
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