Bayport Botswana Co-founder Dies
Monday, July 27, 2015
Segomotso Masukula who perished in a car crash a day before the celebrations is praised as the co-founder of the multi-million company along with the executive chairman Father Maphongo. It was a bitter sweet moment for the company that was also celebrating the awarding of the Global Campaign’s Smart certificate, the only micro-lender in Africa to have been accredited with the certificate.
Father Maphongo relieved the early days with Masukula when they founded the company then known as Money Quest, with a half a million loan facility from CEDA as well as their personal savings, back in 2005. Maphongo says their breakthrough started when they secured a deduction code. Maphongo says the value of the deduction code would later attract investors Bay Port, giving birth to a business partnership in 2010.
Botswana for the longest time was known for her virulent peace with family being an enviable institution.As the media, we are also scared to be incessantly reporting on these bloody scenes where women are brutally murdered and worse, sometimes in front of their children and loved ones. Yes, we have reported cases where men were also brutally murdered by their loved ones, but such cases are a drop in the ocean.For the past two weeks, Botswana was...