20 Aug 2026

Established in 2023 and registered the following year, Mulambakwena Development and Conservation Trust (MDCT) is hard at working towards achieving its mandate of improving the lives of members of the community.

In an interview, chairperson of the trust, Mr Kabelo Kaunda said MDCT intended to focus on driving the social and economic development of the village through conservation of diminishing natural resources and the protection of culture against continued deterioration.

Mr Kaunda noted that some of the work that the trust will undertake include the documentation and preservation through proper storage of cultural and traditional souvenirs like carved wood, woven baskets, pottery, beads, dancing rattles and others which will be kept at a cultural village.

Preserving the legacy and cultural heritage of the village will allow future generations the opportunity to learn the way of life of their forefathers, thereby keeping the local culture alive.

He indicated that traditional cuisine and traditional medicines would also be on display at the cultural village and those with the knowledge of how they were used would be on site to share such knowledge with visitors.

“We need land in order to implement all these ideas and carry out the various activities that we have lined up,” he said, noting that they had proposed to acquire abandoned plots and ruins that have been left unoccupied around the village for many years, a move that has since proven difficult.

He explained that they had since applied for allocation of two plots from the land board, one of which they intend to construct a dam at, an application that he said had been successful and that inspection of the dam site had already been conducted.

Mr Kaunda said they intended to construct one of the biggest dams in the district, whose water they would use to run multiple agricultural undertakings.

He said the dam, which was within a walking distance to the proposed cultural village, would power projects such as fish farming, piggery, poultry farming, vegetable production and livestock watering.

At the cultural village, he said they would plant indigenous plants that were found in the village that were either extinct or on the verge of extinction.

Mr Kaunda said the trust would establish an organic farm where synthetic materials and fertilisers would not be used, that being in the bid to encourage and promote organic farming as the backbone of healthy eating. He said efforts were currently underway to secure funding from potential funders. ENDS