Heritage pageant grand finale in September

Auditions for the pageant will be held in Sedibeng Lodge in Gaborone on February 15
Auditions for the pageant will be held in Sedibeng Lodge in Gaborone on February 15

The Mr and Miss Culture Heritage Botswana grand finale will be held on September 26, 2020 in Gaborone with hope to promote and preserve culture and tradition, while instilling pride in one’s ethnicity.

According to the pageant organiser, Pearl Ntshole, they not only want to instil ethnic pride but also confidence.    She said that they came up with the beauty pageant after realising that there were Batswana who still believed in such a thing as major and minor ethnic groups in Botswana. 

“This has made some youth from (the so-called) ‘minority groups’ have less confidence (in themselves and look shame-faced) about where they come from,” she said.

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