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Dambuza: Hotelier with many interests

Monday, July 25, 2022 | 2410 Views |

A new generation of female entrepreneurs is currently shaking things up. As the 2021 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs has revealed, Botswana ranks top for having the most female business owners in Africa with one of them, at least, changing the face of the hotel industry.

When Sylvia Matimbah Dambuza opened her first hotel, Honeymoon, in Serowe 20 years ago she was just a traveller who saw a gap in the market and took advantage of it.

To date, she operates a 30-bedroomed Honeymoon Hotel and two lodges in Serowe namely; the 11-bedroomed My Destiny Agro Resort and the 18-bedroomed We Care Lodge.

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