Khawa of yesterday and today

Since its inception in 2012, Khawa Sand Dune Challenge and Cultural Festival has attracted multitude of spectators both from within and outside the borders of Botswana, even as far as Europe.

The festival, now eminent on the Botswana tourism calendar of events, is not only a magnificent tourism landscape but also one of Botswana’s economic diversification best practices.

The festival has for over the past three years attracted approximately between 3,700 and 12,000 people showing huge growth.

Editor's Comment
Batswana need to do better to stop FMD

It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...

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