Heritage Celebrations 2024

BBK, as a community, is planning a week-long Heritage Celebration that is meant to celebrate culture in all its dimensions: i.e., cultural dance/music groups competitions, cultural food, and indigenous medicine, the 2-Day SMME Expo that includes a Farmer's Day, Sedibelo sports teams competition (from four BBK-clusters representing all the 32 villages), and youth skills development initiatives. To create a conducive environment for youth and the community across all ages, to develop an interest in their own cultural identity additional activities are being considered through a Mammitlwa festival event as an attraction for both young people and tourists during this period.

Day 1 – Official Opening

Activities on the day:

• Cleansing: Letlapa La Pula
• Official opening of the 7-day Heritage Celebrations (Mphebatho Cultural Museum)

Day 2 – SMME Exhibitions Day

The SMME Exhibition (or Supplier Day) is an access-to-market platform that brings local SMMES together with all local economic players, especially those engaged in the four key strategic areas of our BBKTA Master Plan, i.e., in mining, tourism, agriculture, and manufacturing (or trade & services).

Activities on the day:

• SMME Exhibition Stalls
• Registrations for Quality Assurance
• Food stalls
• Information Sharing

Day 3 – Farmers Day

The exhibition day event serves as a platform to start a farmers' mobilisation campaign for identification and database development. At the moment farmers are loosely affiliated with no formal structure in place that is represented at a macro level. Individual farmers affiliate according to the village, and consequently do not have adequate visibility for a concerted campaign to organise them so that government support and access to critical information can be channelled appropriately.

Activities on the day:

• Crops and Livestock Exhibition
• Livestock Health & Breeding
• Information Sharing (presentations by key stakeholders in the industry)

Day 4 – IKS (Indigenous Knowledge System) CULTURAL DAY

Promoting indigenous knowledge, that should be passed on to the next generation.

• Indigenous Herbs and Food
• Awareness Campaign
• Traditional Food Exhibition/Stalls
• Religion, linguistics, & Culture
• Regulators of the Sangoma (traditional healers) profession
• Traditional Entertainment

Day 5 - DIKGAFELA & MEMORIAL LECTURE

• Celebration of Harvest time (culturally)

Memorial Lecture 

Topic

The contemporary role of customary law in post-apartheid South Africa: The Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela case in Moruleng, South Africa.

Day 6 – Heritage Day Celebration 

(Moruleng Stadium)

Key Focus; Cultural Identity, Social cohesion, Business Development, Youth empowerment & engagement and Tourism attraction.

• Celebration of heritage and culture
• Keynote address by Kgosi Nyalala Pilane
• Entertainment

Day 7 - INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH SERVICE

• Pray for peace, unity and rain
• (Local churches and choirs)
• Sedibelo Sport Tournament Awards

(The tournament is going to target more than 32 villages and more than 152 teams for both netball and soccer)

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