Author: Fantastic Moments

Fiji and Australia were crowned Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 winners in the men’s and women’s events respectively as they both defeated reigning champions New Zealand in two exhilarating finals in Cape Town. The Flying Fijians claimed a third RWC Sevens title, their first since 2005, by beating an All Blacks side that won the last two tournaments with a superb 29-12 victory in the Championship final.The Olympic gold medallists battled past HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series champions Australia in the semi-finals before running in five tries in a fiercely physical final against a New Zealand side who overcame Ireland…

Zambia striker Barbra Banda scored her 10th goal of the competition to hand the Copper Queens a maiden HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women’s Championship title with a 1-0 extra-time victory over hosts South Africa at the Isaac Wolfson Stadium in Nelson Mandela Bay on Sunday. The win ends a 20-year pursuit of the regional title by the Zambians and adds to their extraordinary recent success, which includes a bronze medal at the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco and a first ever qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. South Africa’s youthful squad battled hard but failed to find…

Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 is delighted to welcome HAVAL as an Official Partner. In the week when the full line-up of 40 teams heading to Cape Town has been confirmed, excitement continues to build for a world-class festival of rugby sevens, which takes place on 9-11 September 2022. As the fastest-growing automotive brand year-over-year in South Africa, HAVAL is a customer-centric organisation committed to its customers in South Africa. The company has recently announced the launch of new hybrid vehicles using the second-generation series and parallel hybrid technology. HAVAL is actively developing advanced SUVs with the full support of…

Botswana’s own Neelo Lentebanye is globetrotting and happened to land in Italy for an experience of what is behind, “Rome was not built in a day”. She shares her experience in a detailed, must – fly to Italy to experience it too. ROME 5 a.m at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport. I’ll skip all the details about trying to find my way to the apartment. Thankfully, because the world is full of amazing people, all the 4 people i kept confirming directions from didn’t speak English, but because kindness is a universal language, in an hour I was able to.…

8 September 2022 – A momentous step has been taken in unlocking greater academic progress in Botswana’s Northwest District, as Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Botswana’s Okavango Sub District Council to build parts of Eretsha Primary School. This comes as part of the “Better School Infrastructure for Better Education” initiative by CITW Botswana. The mandate of CITW Botswana, as the non-profit entity established by Okavango Wilderness Safaris, is bedrocked upon working to facilitate sustainable conservation through leadership development and education of children in Africa. This comes as an unwavering commitment to driving sustainable progress…

CAPE TOWN, 8 September 2022 – Astron Energy, which operates the second largest petroleum retail network in South Africa with over 850 service stations, has unveiled its new-look service stations. The rebrand from Caltex to Astron Energy is the most significant change in the South African liquid fuels industry in three decades. It is also a key milestone in Astron Energy’s ambition of becoming the next biggest fuel brand in South Africa. The first Astron Energy sites to feature the new brand include: Chuenespoort along the R37 in LimpopoKwaMakhuta in Amanzimtoti, KZNNandi in eThekweni, KZNMACS in Brooklyn, Cape Town The entire network of…

Botswana’s 400m track runner, Galefele Moroko has returned to track after a long hiatus due to an acute angle sprain injury that kept her on the sidelines for eight months. She was ruled out of competition after she limped off the track during a training session where later it was confirmed an acute angle sprain and missed all season competitions. She was a worth noting absentee from international competitions held this year including Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Africa Senior Championships amongst others. Nevertheless, excited of her response to treatment and recovery, Moroko has resumed light training and she is on her third week back on track in Maun, her native village under the tutelage of Coach Kebonyemodisa…

The Premium Nickel Resources (PNR) has conceptulized to host an annual cultural and creative (Entrepreneurship, Sports, Arts & Culture) Jamboree, which will be celebrated in the Selebi Phikwe as a Carnival on a three-day filled activities on September 29 – 1 October 2022. The carnival will also marks the official soft launch of PNR’s Tsholofelo Project. According to Shamil Agosi, the PNR Manager – Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), “It will be a memoir for the hopes of socio-economic resuscitation and growth that PNR holds for the entire region and by extension Botswana. The carnival aims to promote and showcase…

In and around 1989-1990, various citizen companies expressed interest in developing a commercial retail centre on the undeveloped piece of land located in the centre of Gaborone which belonged to the Botswana Government and was later to become the CBD. In 1991 – 1992, various citizen companies came together to form the Citizen Investment Group (CIG). It began with five citizen companies and expanded to ten. This group was formed with idea of Batswana pulling together to create a united economic front to ensure that home grown business experience, resources and ingenuity are at the forefront of the development and…

The Confederation of Southerne African Football Association (COSAFA) recently held a workshop aimed at upskilling female media officers from the region and beyond as part of the legacy programme at the 2022 HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women’s Championship that is being staged in Nelson Mandela Bay. With a paucity of female media officers on the continent at both club and country level, this was a chance to impart knowledge and help in the development of this vital function in Africa. “This is something that has been in the works for many years and we were delighted to be able to host our…