The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture will be celebrating the 2017 Africa Day at House Number 5, Credo Mutwa Street in Magojaneng in Kuruman.the event will be marked under a theme “The Year of OR Tambo, Building a Better Africa and a Better World.” It is scheduled to be addressed by Premier Ms. Sylvia Lucas who will be accompanied by the MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Mr. Mxolisi Sokatsha and other MECs. 

The 2017 event will be celebrated with songs and dance representing various African cultural practices.  The department believes it can unite South Africans and other foreign nationals that reside in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District. 

The Northern Cape Provincial Government will be rolling out a number of programmes building up towards the main event in Kuruman. The programmes will be held throughout in order to build up the momentum and create awareness. The department of Sport, Arts and Culture will host Africa Month Dialogues and lectures. These will be held to arouse conversations about what people think it is to be an African in Africa today, regardless of where in Africa a person is from, but what they think it is to be an African. 

The root purpose of this year's Provincial Africa Month celebration is to honour Baba Credo Mutwa in recognition of his exceptional contribution to South Africa's knowledge, African philosophy and traditional cultural practices. The auspicious event will serves as a symbolic gesture by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture to the acclaimed African Philosopher Baba Credo Mutwa.Government services will be rendered on site.