{"id":12783,"date":"2025-09-02T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/numsa-saga-push-for-formal-recognition-of-sas-creative-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:00","slug":"numsa-saga-push-for-formal-recognition-of-sas-creative-sector","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/numsa-saga-push-for-formal-recognition-of-sas-creative-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"NUMSA, SAGA push for formal recognition of SA\u2019s creative sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint statement, the organisations highlighted the financial hardships many artists continue to face, pointing to the absence of labour protections and clear industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is common in creative industries around the world, including in Africa, but not in SA\u201d said SAGA Chairperson Jack Devnarain. \u201cWithout these benefits, artists cannot earn residual income or contribute to social security funds that they could rely on in later years. We are asking for our status as workers to be recognised and for our constitutional rights to protection under labour laws to be upheld.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Devnarain emphasised that recognition under labour laws would mark a major shift, providing fair pay, social security, and formal protections for actors, musicians, and other creative professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12784,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-12783","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa\u2019s (SA) creative industry is calling for stronger protections, as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the SA Guild of Actors (SAGA) urge the government to formally recognise and regulate the sector.||South Africa\u2019s (SA) creative industry is calling for stronger protections, as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the SA Guild of Actors (SAGA) urge the government to formally recognise and regulate the sector.","published_date":"2025-10-14 00:00:00||2025-10-14 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12783\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}