Beef festival, a hit
Monday, May 06, 2013

Titled Lobatse International Beef Festival ,the beef affair started early morning and continued through the day to an evening program full of music and entertainment.
For a new event,the festival managed to rope in people of different age groups from old people to youngsters possibly because of Batswana's love for meat.However despite the name, the Beef Festival seemed to be have limited kilograms of beef. Like the name states, the expectation was to find lots and lots of beef available for people to devour on until they could not feast anymore.
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