BOPITEKELO COMMUNITY CENTRE

Madikwe Game Reserve, North West Province, South Africa

2003

The Bopitikelo Community Centre, situated in Molatedi Village within Madikwe Game Reserve  in the North West Province of South Africa, was conceived as a meeting place; a centre for the reinvigoration of the cultural history of a people: individuals who had been largely divested of their traditions through disruption by the colonial and apartheid regimes.

 

The project again involved a long process (as part of a multilateral funded Rural Development Initiative) conducted to facilitate the election of a committee who represented a fair cross-section of the complex local community. The committee chose the site (on the edge of the Game Reserve) and identified the need for a venue for community and social functions; a place facilitating dialogue between local communities and visitors from Southern Africa and abroad; a place of reconciliation.