Author: Fantastic Moments

The First Capital Bank Botswana has announced their improved partnership with the Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) when they unveiled a P50, 000 sponsorship in a media conference held at Botswana Craft recently. The gesture follows the December 2022 when First Capital Bank launched a zero-cost savings account named Lefika Savings Account that targets Personal customers with an aim to build and encourage the culture and lifestyle of savings aptly gaining the naming rights for the upcoming BTTA tournaments. “We developed this account in response to the voice of the customer. The Lefika savings account offers customers the opportunity to…

Over 30 tourism industry experts, disruptors, and data specialists are set to take the stage at this year’s Business Opportunity Networking Day (BONDay), to be held a day prior to the Meetings Africa 2023 trade show. The overwhelming response to the session speaks to many attendees’ high anticipation and eagerness to participate in what promises to be an insightful and action-packed event. These featured speakers boast over 100 years of combined experience as seasoned tourism executives who have witnessed the evolution of the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry. The depth and breadth of the speakers make the 2023…

Wilderness has two great wins to celebrate from the Luxury Lifestyle Magazine (LLM) Readers’ Travel Awards 2022! The company has been listed as one of the best specialist tour operators globally, while Botswana’s own Wilderness DumaTau has been listed as one of the best hotels in Africa. After months of deliberation and polling its discerning readers, the votes have been counted and the results are in, the publication noted in its recently published list here.   The fifth annual LLM Readers’ Travel Awards saw luxury hotels, destinations, cruise lines, airlines and travel companies across the world competing to be crowned the very best…

After struggling to secure sponsorship for the 2022/2023 football season, the Botswana Football League (BFL) has today entered into a new partnership. Absa Bank Botswana announced a new sponsorship of the second half of the 2022/2023 season for P1.7 million. The renewed sponsorship follows theBank’s 2019 official announcement as the financial sponsor which ran from 2019 to 2021 valued at P6.7 million. The sponsorship is in line with Absa Bank Botswana’s commitment to being a force for good in its communities through its Citizenship Agenda. Speaking during a media press conference at the launch of the sponsorship in Gaborone, the…

Botswana’s US based professional golfer Ouname Mhotsha has joined the other twenty-five new recruits for the  IOC Young Leaders Olympic Committee (IOC)’s four-year programme that will support them in the creation of grassroots sport-based initiatives aimed at addressing issues in their communities. The new Young Leaders – balanced in terms of gender and diversity, and from 25 countries across five continents – were chosen from more than 360 applicants, and have demonstrated their passion for using sport as a tool for social and economic change. Over the next four years, the IOC Young Leaders will benefit from online learning, mentorship and hands-on experience…

UPICtv recently partnered with Botswana Softball Association (BSA) in the just-ended World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC)Women’s Africa World Cup Qualifiers that were held at the National Diamond from the 6th -10th February 2023. UPICtv was the broadcast partner for the games, which were streamed for free on the channel and attracted audiences from Botswana, participating countries, and the rest of the world. All in all, the channel was viewed by almost 3,000 viewers from countries such as Switzerland, Zambia, South Korea, Finland, Lesotho, South Africa, Kenya, Singapore, Nigeria, the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom during that period. “We…

The World Tourism Organization and the Government of the Republic of Croatia, through its Ministry of Tourism and Sports, organizes the 2nd World Sports Tourism Congress on 26-27 April 2023. This Congress represents a unique opportunity for experts from across the growing field of sports tourism to share new ideas and best practices. Held under the theme ‘Tourism & Sports United for Sustainability’, the Congress will serve as framework to deepen the study of sports tourism, a segment with enormous potential and one of the fastest-growing tendency, as well as to draw up insights and conclusions that may generate innovative ideas and inspire the…

As the ploughing season gained momentum in most parts of the country, Okavango Wilderness Safaris (OWS) was in the Okavango Delta in early December to hand over seed to farmers in the villages of Seronga, Gunotsoga, Eretsha, Beetsha, Gudigwa, and Sankoyo. For this year’s planting season, OWS partnered with Seed Co Botswana to hand over two tonnes of maize seed worth over BWP95,000. Last year, OWS presented cowpeas, maize and millet seed with a value of BWP25.000 to farmers in these areas. OWS has worked tirelessly for several years now to support crop farming within its partner-communities – including providing…

International acclaimed diamond manufacturing company, the Dubai-based StarGems Group has established operations in Botswana with a state of the art machinery. StarGems mainly focuses on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing and auctioning of diamonds and jewellery. It has previously set up operations in New York, Dubai, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. “Over the years Botswana has been one of the largest diamond producers in the world, in 2021, the country’s diamond production amounted to nearly 23 million carats. This represents an increase of some 26 percent from the previous year. This motivated us to set foot in Botswana and establish operations. We were…

The World Athletics has awarded Botswana Golden Grand Prix a massive stride to host the athletics continental tour gold status billed for the 29th of April 2023, at the National Stadium in Gaborone, to become the only two continental tours held in Africa. However, with such a milestone comes a ‘pressure’ responsibilities and hosting logistics. The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) led by Golden Door Sports Agency, the brainchild idea of former athlete Glody Dube are projecting an estimated P9m budget to stage a successful event. The budget entails athletes flights, appearance fees, accommodation, staff remunerations, medals among others logistics. In an…