Southern African Development Community
f)
develop and promote institutions of cultural heritage such as libraries,
museums and archives in support of the broad and specific objectives of this
Protocol; and
g)
promote the use of indigenous languages, where they exist, for the promotion
ofthe cultural identity of the Region.
ARTICLE 12
LANGUAGE POLICY FORMULATION
1.
State Parties shall formulate and implement language policies that aim at promoting
indigenous languages for national socio-economic development, where such languages
exist.
2.
State Parties shall institute and put into practical effect policy measures that aim at
encouraging the learning and wider use of the official languages of Member States and
of the working languages of SADC.
3.
State Parties shall encourage and promote the use of indigenous languages as medium
of instruction, where such languages exist.
4.
State Parties shall collaborate in the development of augmentative and alternative
communication systems for people with impediments that negate communication.
ARTICLE 13
PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
State Parties shall establish policy guidelines for the preservation and promotion of the
cultural heritage of the Region in all its multi-farious facets formulated in close collaboration
with relevant stakeholders, and shall seek to harmonise such guidelines in the interest of
mutually beneficial integration ofthe Region.
ARTICLE 14
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
1.
State Parties undertake to make cultural industries a major cornerstone of their national
economies.
2.
State Parties shall take such measures as are necessary in order to nurture, protect and
promote their infant cultural industries.
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