Botswana Receives Jack Ma Consignment To Fight COVID-19

Monday, March 30, 2020

Jack Ma donations arriving in Gaborone PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

In a donation that is seen to change the new world order and place China as the Big Brother in global politics, Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation pledged to donate to each one of the 54 African nations 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 medical use protective suits and face shields.

On Wednesday night the assistant minister of Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration, Dumezweni Mthimkhulu and other senior government officials received Botswana’s consignment from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport.

Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 has been busy traversing every African country to deliver the generous gifts from the Alibaba mogul to help fight the coronavirus. It is a total of 1.1 million testing kits, a million masks and 60,000 protective gear.

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