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Northern Cape Heritage Resources Authority

Northern Cape Heritage Resources Authority (formerly Ngwao Boswa jwa Kapa Bokone - Heritage Northern Cape)
Formation 2003
Headquarters 1 Roper St, Kimberley, Northern Cape
Region served
Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Main organ
Council
Website Ngwao-Boswa Jwa Kapa Bokone

Coordinates: 28°44′8″S 24°45′56″E / 28.73556°S 24.76556°E / -28.73556; 24.76556

The Northern Cape Heritage Resources Authority, previously called Ngwao Boswa jwa Kapa Bokone (seTswana for 'Heritage Northern Cape'), and commonly known as 'Boswa', is a provincial heritage resources authority established in 2003 by the MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, and reconstituted in terms of the Northern Cape Heritage Resources Authority Act, 2013. It is an institution set up under the terms of the National Heritage Resources Act. It is mandated to care for that part of South Africa's national estate that is of provincial and local significance in the Northern Cape.

The Heritage Authority is best known as the custodian of the approximately 130 provincial heritage sites in the province, but is also responsible for administration of other forms of protection of heritage established under the terms of the National Heritage Resources Act.

The Northern Cape Heritage Resources Authority (sometimes referred to as 'Ngwao Boswa') is the successor body to the former National Monuments Council in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Under the 1996 Constitution of South Africa cultural matters are a competency shared between national and provincial government. This necessitated the creation of a system whereby many of the responsibilities of the former National Monuments Council were devolved to provincial level via the National Heritage Resources Act.


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