No Kuru dance fest three years on

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GANTSI: The Kuru Dance Festival will not be held for a third-year running owing to a dispute between Kuru Development Trust and Letloa Trust that has led to a lucrative sponsor pulling out.

Kuru Development Trust (KDT) board chairperson, Aaron Johannes, informed D’Kar community at a kgotla meeting recently that the dance festival will not be held this year as they have no sponsors.

He revealed that they had managed to secure sponsorship from Debswana, but because of the row between KDT and Letloa Trust, the diamond company decided to pull out of a three-year sponsorship deal they had promised.

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