Motswana Potter Targets Guinness Record

Mmla Oefile. PIC: MOMPATI TLHANKANE
Mmla Oefile. PIC: MOMPATI TLHANKANE

A teacher, Mmala Oefile from Molepolole has finally begun his Big Pot Africa project in which he aims to beat Guinness Book of World Records by making the world’s largest clay pot.

In his quest, Oefile intends to beat a eat achieved by Rytis Konstantinavicius (Lithuania), in Babimost, Poland, on September 7, 2014. Konstantinavicius’s largest earthenware pot had a height of 310.1 cm (9 ft 10.54 in), a maximum circumference of 689.5 cm (22 ft 7.46 in), a mouth circumference of 502.9 cm (16 ft 5.99 in), a mouth diameter of 160.1 cm (5 ft 3.03 in), and a floor circumference of 466 cm (15 ft 3.46 in). The pot consumed 3,000 kg clay.

Now Kgari Sechele I Museum in Molepolole will be the historic site once Oefile completes his Big Pot next year. Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) has donated P30, 000 for the Big Pot Africa project. This past weekend a group of volunteers from CEDA visited Oefile and his team to help speed up the process by preparing some of the clay ingredients.

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