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Mandate, Goals and Objectives

The University of Venda, in partnership with the Department of National Arts and Culture will collect, document, preserve and promote the Indigenous Cultural Heritage of the previously marginalised people of the Limpopo Province.

In order to carry out its mandate fully, the University of Venda Indigenous Music and Oral History Research Project Team has been working towards achieving the following specific objectives:

• To play a leading role in collecting, documenting, preserving and promoting all areas of indigenous music and instruments that are endemic ( prevalent ) in the communities around the Limpopo Province.
  
  
• To compile a research document about the music and instruments with the ultimate aim of producing a publication ( book ) for both the national and the international audience.
  
  
• To work towards producing a documentary on the history, culture and music of the people of Limpopo Province.
  
  
• To facilitate in the education and training on indigenous musical performances and learning. 
  
  
• To preserve this intangible cultural heritage.
  
  
• To empower students and the broader community in indigenous music knowledge and practice.
  
  
• To create accessibility to this heritage for the broader communities, and
  
  
• To encourage dialogue through oral history in order to generate continuous research.

It was upon this background that we undertook to achieve this set of goals in three phases, the third of which we have yet to accomplish.