Hon House Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that on 10 September 2012 the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was launched during our National Parks Week observance at Mapungubwe National Park;
2) further notes that in 2003, when Unesco accorded World Heritage status to Mapungubwe, they made a recommendation that an interpretation centre should be developed onsite in order to explain the significant but largely invisible remains of the Mapungubwe Kingdom;
3) recalls that the interpretation centre building has won the prestigious World Building of the Year award in 2009 and has won six more awards for different aspects of this masterpiece;
4) believes that the centre captures the spirituality, history, culture and indigenous knowledge systems of the people of South Africa and Southern Africa;
5) further believes that the centre affords South Africa a platform for the recovery of the African stream of history and culture;
6) acknowledges that the centre is a poverty relief project, using ecological methods and materials and extends beyond the presentation of ancient and more recent history of the area to awaken an understanding of the vulnerability of the local ecology; and
7) calls on all citizens to use every possible platform to raise awareness and encourage every person to recognise the need to do something about the protection of our heritage.
Agreed to.