Bikers Promote Cross Border Tourism
Monday, May 21, 2018
Botswana Tourism Organisation hosted the bikers from SADC Countries at Fairview Gardens over the weekend. The bikers were arriving from Kasane where they have been riding to create an environment for members to enjoy biking whilst contributing meaningfully to the communities, and promotion of cross border tourism. In an interview with Sport Monitor, club spokesperson Ernest Mokganedi said they decided to partner with the stakeholders of KAZA TFCA to market the KAZA TFCA through the TLB tour of five countries; Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The KAZA TFCA is an enormous area that lies in the Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
“We started in Pretoria, then Botswana and proceeded to Namibia. The tour continued to Angola and then went back to Namibia. We visited Kasane and from there we went to Zambia before we finally went to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe,” he said.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....