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(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
(xi)
(xii)
(xiii)
(xiv)
(xv)
(xvi)
(xvii)
(xviii)
(xix)
(xx)
(xxi)
(d) features, structures and artefacts associated with military history which
are older than 75 years and the sites on which they are found; (ii)
‘‘conservation’’, in relation to heritage resources, includes protection,
maintenance, preservation and sustainable use of places or objects so as to
safeguard their cultural significance; (vi)
‘‘Council’’ means the Council of the South African Heritage Resources
Agency established in terms of section 14; (xxxv)
‘‘cultural property agreement’’ in relation to a foreign state, means an
agreement between South Africa and a foreign state or an international
agreement to which South Africa and a foreign state are both parties, relating
to the prevention of illicit international traffic in cultural property; (xx)
‘‘cultural significance’’ means aesthetic, architectural, historical, scientific,
social, spiritual, linguistic or technological value or significance; (xix)
‘‘Department’’ means the national department responsible for arts and culture
and heritage; (viii)
‘‘development’’ means any physical intervention, excavation, or action, other
than those caused by natural forces, which may in the opinion of a heritage
authority in any way result in a change to the nature, appearance or physical
nature of a place, or influence its stability and future well-being, including—
(a) construction, alteration, demolition, removal or change of use of a place
or a structure at a place;
(b) carrying out any works on or over or under a place;
(c) subdivision or consolidation of land comprising, a place, including the
structures or airspace of a place;
(d) constructing or putting up for display signs or hoardings;
(e) any change to the natural or existing condition or topography of land; and
(f) any removal or destruction of trees, or removal of vegetation or topsoil;
(xxix)
‘‘Director-General’’ means the Director-General of the Department; (ix)
‘‘expropriate’’ means the process as determined by the terms of and according
to procedures prescribed in the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975);
(xxviii)
‘‘foreign cultural property’’, in relation to a reciprocating state, means any
object that is specifically designated by that state as being of importance for
archaeology, history, literature, art or science; (vii)
‘‘Gazette’’ means the Government Gazette; (xl)
‘‘grave’’ means a place of interment and includes the contents, headstone or
other marker of such a place, and any other structure on or associated with
such place; (xvi)
‘‘heritage agreement’’ means an agreement referred to in section 42; (xiii)
‘‘heritage register’’ means a list of heritage resources in a province; (xiv)
‘‘heritage resource’’ means any place or object of cultural significance; (xi)
‘‘heritage resources authority’’ means the South African Heritage Resources
Agency, established in terms of section 11, or, insofar as this Act is applicable
in or in respect of a province, a provincial heritage resources authority; (xii)
‘‘heritage site’’ means a place declared to be a national heritage site by
SAHRA or a place declared to be a provincial heritage site by a provincial
heritage resources authority; (xv)
‘‘improvement’’, in relation to heritage resources, includes the repair,
restoration and rehabilitation of a place protected in terms of this Act; (xivl)
‘‘land’’ includes land covered by water and the air space above the land; (xvii)
‘‘living heritage’’ means the intangible aspects of inherited culture, and may
include—
(a) cultural tradition;
(b) oral history;
(c) performance;
(d) ritual;
(e) popular memory;
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