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Community roots in Molote
The Bakubung Ba Ratheo community settles and builds its life on ancestral land.
Rooted in community · Built for impact
We touch youwith goodness.
Community. Entrepreneurship. Environment. Opportunity.
Boikhutso Moloko Family Trust develops initiatives that empower communities through entrepreneurship, skills development, environmental stewardship and sustainable economic participation.
Community Development, Entrepreneurship, Beekeeping, Environment, Skills Development, Sustainability, Molote Village, Africa
The Trust · The People
This story starts with community.
1966
Forced removal
The community is removed from its ancestral land under apartheid.
1994
The return
Following the democratic transition and the restitution process, the community returns to ancestral land.
Today
Building the economy of home
Community development through entrepreneurship, environmental initiatives and practical economic participation.
People first.
The Initiatives
One Trust. Many ways to create impact.
Boikhutso Moloko Family Trust
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship workshops and enterprise support so that participation in the economy is practical, not theoretical.
Initiatives under the Trust
The work we're building.
Queen Bee Africa
Loving bees. Sustaining life.
A developmental organisation trading under licence from Boikhutso Moloko Family Trust. Its model brings together land, beehives, beekeeping training, management, association registration, beekeeping workshops and entrepreneurship workshops.
- Beekeeping
- Entrepreneurship
- Environment
Love the bees.
Grow the community.
The documented Queen Bee Africa model describes a profit and loss sharing structure of 30% land, 30% beehives and 40% management. This is a description of that operating model, not an investment offer or a promise of returns.
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Community
The work starts with people who already know their village, their land and each other.
Entrepreneurship
Enterprise is the vehicle. Workshops, associations and trade turn effort into income.
Skills
Training is transferred, not delivered. Skills stay where the work happens.
Environment
Bees, veld and pollination are treated as economic infrastructure worth protecting.
Sustainability
Structures that keep working when the funding cycle ends.
Where the work happens
Bee Farming Project
Molote Village
North West, South Africa
Hives, harvests, training and equipment — run on community land with community beekeepers.
View project →Communities are not projects.
Proof of the work
African Regional
Apimondia Symposium
2023
2nd Place
Granulated Honey — Light Category
Lesego Moloko
2nd Place
Cut Comb Category
Lesego Moloko
Annual fundraising event
Lerato 4 Molote2026
24 October 2026
Molote City
Walk · Hike · Camp · Give back
066 486 3865
The Places
From Sandton to Molote.
Head office
Gallo Manor
Gallo Manor, Sandton, Gauteng
Operational office
Molote Village
Molote Village, North West Province
→ and then, the community.
Rooted in Molote.
The People
The people behind the work.
Esau Moloko
Executive Chairman
Millicent
Deputy Chairman
Mothusi
Marketing Trustee
Lesego
Operations Trustee
Executive structure as documented by the Trust. Portraits will be added as official photography is supplied.
We don't just see the challenge.We build a response.
- Community development
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental stewardship
- Skills
- Opportunity
Vision
“To play a leading and impactful role in the empowerment of communities in the love of bees and the environment through participation in entrepreneurial bee farming projects.”
“To be impactful in the development of impoverished communities.”
Values: Love, Trust, Integrity, Innovation, Professionalism
Opportunity grows here, Protect the environment, Build something sustainable
From the field
- Community
- Environment
- Entrepreneurship
- Beekeeping
- Events
- People
Beekeeping
Inside the Molote apiary: a season of hive management
Events
Lerato 4 Molote returns to the hills
Entrepreneurship
From workshop to association
Environment
Why pollination is community infrastructure
The field in pictures
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Build something with us.
Fund
Support development initiatives.
Partner
Collaborate with the Trust.
Participate
Get involved in programmes and events.
Support
Contribute resources, skills or expertise.