12^th Limpopo Marula Festival 2017 a success

It happened again this year that 2017 annual Marula festival attracts many tourists as it always does since it started in 2006. This is one of the prestigious festivals in the country that attracts international tourists in all directions of the earth. Diverse of cultures and traditions of people found within Phalaborwa attends the event to express their way of doing things in terms of music, indigenous games, and dance.

Since Marula Festival began, provincial economy of Limpopo reached another level and uplifted due to the capacity of tourists, business partners and companies investing more into this amicable event annually. In addition, Marula festival invites international guests from across Africa and South America, the festival is aimed at developing a sustainable local economy through industry development. It is a partnership between SEDA, the Limpopo Tourism Agency, Limpopo Economic Development Agency, Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, the Office of the Premier, National Department of Arts and Culture, Phalaborwa Tourism Association and Kruger National Park.

Marula festival gives opportunity to the residents of Ba-Phalaborwa and the nearest areas by hosting several of activities such as sports, entertainment, career expo, business developments and lastly nature conservation. The residents are proud of their own making beer (VUKANYI) which is known as marula beer that is made out of their hands and which is been practiced from their generation to the next particularly by black people in Limpopo. Many different type musicians across the country and SADC countries always gets excited when a year begin, because they know that annual marula festival is the necessity to them and their fans, to the local artists it is a privilege to them, because local artists are mostly given a chance to perform and be heard by many people, celebrities, government officials, successful business people and the like. 

To this end, marula is a heritage phenomenon which is performed by traditional leaders at the beginning of the marula season. It is a heritage practice that precludes any drinking of the marula beverage before traditional leaders have blessed the season. 

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