Orange makes another student a millionaire
Kagiso Onkatswitse | Monday March 31, 2014 15:56
These two promotions are meant to reward customers with a cash price, and so far P1million has been the largest offer in Botswana. In this promotion, customers are entered automatically each time they utilise the e-Recharge to top up their prepaid Orange cellphone numbers.
The first and last year’s millionaire was 20 year-old student from Francistown, Malebogo Rammeke.
It was not just Mpuang whom the network provider blessed. During this year’s promotion, Orange awarded gifts and prizes worth more than P3 million to various customers. These prizes varied from SMS bundles to airtime, device vouchers and 13 special cash prizes of P20,000.
According to Orange Botswana chief executive officer, Philippe Baudin the e-Recharge and Win promotion “is a great way to reward our customers for being with Orange and for their loyalty throughout the year. It really gives us pleasure and satisfaction to be giving away our second prize of P1 million to one of our customers, more so that the winner turned out to be a young Motswana. This is another way of us giving back to the community.”
As in 2013, Orange is taking precautions to ensure that there are no unreasonable disruptions in the life of the young instant millionaire. “The welfare of the winner is of prime concern for us and we will always handle this with high sensitivity” said Baudin.
Lebogang Moruti, Marketing Operations Manager, said with the promotions, they are rewarding customers at various intervals, with every customer standing a chance to win a prize with each e-Recharge.
The third instalment of the competitions started this month, March 2014 and is expected to end exactly 12 months later with another millionaire.
Just like with the past and current competitions, Michel Levet, the Orange Chief Technical Officer said there are various security protocols that make it impossible to manipulate the system to influence the result. “We are therefore absolutely confident that the process had no interferences,” said Levet.