“The Lekgophung Lodge is a community-owned wildlife tourism lodge, located in the western part of the Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West Province of South Africa. The Lekgophung community is settled near the western boundary of this protected area.
The key case-study question is: How and how much can community-owned lodge development within a protected wildlife area contribute towards sustainably improving livelihoods of
households in communities bordering on the protected area? The study considers the following aspects: structural arrangements;
funding; financial returns and ‘SMME'(small, medium and micro enterprise) linkages; employment opportunities; skills
acquisition and institution building; lodge governance; and development co-ordination.
Direct benefits from the Lekgophung Lodge enterprise are expected to boost average household income in the village.”
