The Makuleke story

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The Makuleke story
Presented by Mashangu Livingstone Maluleke
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Background

• Lived well in the Makuleke Region
• 22000 hectares at northern most part of Kruger
  National Park (KNP) between Limpopo and Levhuvu
  Rivers
• Rich abundance of Natural resources
• Removed by force in 1969
• Dumped in area outside the KNP about 70 kms
  from the Makuleke Region
• Developed our 3 new villages
• In 1996 we got our land back

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The Makuleke Region
Zimbabwe
Moza
Makuleke Villages
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Our Win-Win Agreement

• After negotiating with SANParks we agreed to keep
  our land within Kruger NP as a contractual park
• We established a Joint Management Board - 50/50
  with SANParks
• Share day-to-day management
• Community have commercial rights to the area
• Sustainable harvesting including hunting
• Tourism development with Private operators

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The Joint Management Board

• The JMB is a interim arrangement to build skills
  One day we will manage our land ourselves.
• Work according to a Management and Development
  Plan
• Same standard as rest of Kruger
• Zoned areas for tourism use
• The JMB has not been without conflict and problems

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The Makuleke Joint Management Board
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Organised for benefit sharing

• Communal Property Association CPA
• /- 15 000 community members
• CPA is title holder of the Makuleke Region
• CPA Executive 8 elected members
• Represents CPA in all business and land issues
• Implementation office
• Our full time workers and link to outsiders
• Development Forum
• A forum of community leadership to advise Exco on
  village level development and benefit sharing
• Development Trust
• Administers the money we make and spend on
  projects and running costs

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Explaining the private sector contract
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Generating the benefits

• Conservation choice excluded mining and
  agriculture.
• See tourism as main source of revenue in long
  term.
• Used hunting to generate initial money.

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Our tourism partnerships

• Process was an open tender to private sector
• Concession agreements give us
• A Build-Operate-Transfer arrangement
• 10 of turnover as lease fee
• projected at US350 000 per year
• Wage income for employees
• Expect 120 US600 000 per year
• Money to cover poaching and land management

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The Pafuri Lodge Our 2nd lodge
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Benefit sharing challenge

• Benefit sharing can cause conflict
• Hopefully our structures and commitment to good
  governance will overcome this.
• Investment in community development must be done
  with support of local government
• We need to link into the Local Governments
  Integrated Development Plan, not do it alone.

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Training our team of anti-poaching rangers
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Looking forward

• We believe that conservation is changing in
  South Africa to be more community friendly and
  attempting to adress poverty.
• We are learning from our Private Sector partners
  and depend on them to do good business on our
  land.
• The Makuleke Region will never give us all we
  need, but what we have done so far makes us proud.

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Finally

• Thanks to all our supporters,
• including GZT and the German Government,
• The Ford Foundation,
• as well as countless individuals.
• Our success is your success

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