The Sunday News
PREPARATIONS for the second edition of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Cultural Festival slated for Chiredzi from 3-6 September are on course with the organisers promising it to be better and bigger.
In an interview Gaza Trust director Hebert Pikela said this edition of the regional cultural festival promised to attract a bigger audience given the interest it has generated.
Gaza Trust are the main organisers of the annual festival which has attracted a lot of interest among people of Tshangana descent from across the Limpopo.
The festival will be held under the theme: “Towards zero tolerance to poaching in Africa by 2020’’.
“It is our hope that the second edition will be bigger, exciting and better than the inaugural one that we hosted last year,” he said.
The inaugural festival was also held in Chiredzi last year.
“The Cultural fair seeks to promote cultural tourism through cross pollination of ideas as well as conscientising people from the three countries on the importance of wildlife and natural resources conservation. It also seeks to promote heritage between three countries whose groups share the same language.
“The festival attracts cultural groups from Mozambique, South Africa’s Makado Municipality and Zimbabwe. This will also mark the twinning of Makado municipality and Chiredzi Town Council, an arrangement which will go a long way in cementing the two countries’ relationship through cultural exchanges”
Pikela said the festival would attract 40 delegates from the three countries comprising Minister of Tourism and academics from South Africa.
He said they would hold language and culture consultation workshops at Hakamela Conference Centre on 4 September.
“In the afternoon guests will tour the town and places like Kambako Bush Craft Museum and Buffalo Range Airport. The following day, delegates will be taken on a heritage tour of Gonarezhou National Park and the Vatsonga communities, Gonakudzingwa restriction camp and Xilotlela border post (Sango). On the last day, delegates will be taken to Manjinji,” he said.
