Thato Mosinyi
Delegates attending the US-Africa Business Summit have been urged to stay in Botswana beyond the summit dates and explore the country's beautiful game reserves and national parks.
Said assistant minister of trade and industry, Ms Beauty
Manake at their welcome dinner on Wednesday: "I implore you to take
advantage of your stay here to visit places such as the Okavango Delta,
Makgadikgadi Pans and Tsodilo hills just to mention but a few," Ms Manake
said.
She said the Makgadikgadi epic, a sport and adventure
tourism event with activities such as skydiving, tandem jumps, fun quad biking,
horse riding, and camping was scheduled to resume at the end of the summit, and
invited the delegates to immerse themselves "in an adventure like no other".
Also speaking at the reception Absa Group Chief Executive
Officer, Mr Arrie Rautenbach said the summit's focus was to build a better
future for Africa's economic enhancement. Mr Rautenbach said he was hopeful
that the summit would improve intra-Africa trade, enhance industrialisation,
and strengthen continental and regional value chains.
Moreover, he said it was pleasing that the summit was hosted
in Botswana, adding the choice of the theme: Enhancing Africa's value in Global
value chains, aligned with Absa's commitment to Empowering Africa's tomorrow,
together ... one story at a time, whereby the bank plans to increase its black
ownership to above 25%.
BOPA
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