Dikuno Community Development Trust
The future of these communities is still ours to build.
Dikuno partners with host communities around the Amandelbult Complex — turning mining dividends into schools, clinics and digital access that outlast the mine itself.
Development measured in decades, not project cycles.
Since 2012, Dikuno has worked alongside traditional leadership, municipalities and communities across Limpopo and North West.
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Rand distributed to communities in 2025
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People living across the benefit area
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Patients reached through health promotion
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Square kilometres across two provinces
Our timeline
From a shared-ownership idea to a 20-year vision.
2010
Community Empowerment Trust
Anglo American Platinum (now Valterra Platinum) proposes a shared-ownership programme, funded by dividends from R1.3 billion in shares.
2013
Public Benefit Trust
Dikuno is established and recognised as a Public Benefit Organisation, governed by elected community trustees.
2019–2025
Project implementation
Benefit activities are designed with direct input from the people affected by each problem.
2026
20-year vision updated
The Board endorses a long-term development vision built around five interconnected development goals.
2027
Five-year plan begins
Dikuno begins implementing its next operational plan, moving from funding projects to stewarding long-term outcomes.
Looking to 2046
Five goals, followed across a lifetime.
Dikuno's 20-year vision is built around five interconnected goals that reduce vulnerability at every stage of life.
01
Children under five are nurtured and thrive within their homes and local community.
Early childhood development
02
Youth transition through integrated education-to-work pathways, with no "exit to nothing."
Youth & education
03
Youth co-produce public value through integrated, place-based economic participation.
Economic inclusion
04
Women and adolescent girls exercise reproductive autonomy within safe, responsive systems.
Health & wellbeing
05
Household and community asset systems are strengthened to sustain independent ageing.
Ageing with dignity
Messages of support
What our host communities say.
Development partners
