Charity, Assistant manager/relief

Assistant Manager/Relief, Charity Mpotokwane, 25, grew up in Francistown, which means she was a city girl when she moved to Maun after high school to earn her hospitality operations certificate from Maun Technical College. Her practical training for her degree led her to the bush, to an educational attachment with Desert & Delta Safaris. She joined the company as an assistant manager trainee in February 2008, and today she works as an assistant manager/relief, alternating camps as needed when assigned managers are away.

The city girl is sold on bush life. “The first time I saw elephants swim, I said, ‘Wow. This is what brings the tourists to the country.’”

Her dream is to run her own camp in the delta. “It’s lovely to be close to nature…quiet and peaceful,” she says, adding that she’s proud to be a Motswana living in a stable country. “I don’t want to travel, because the world comes to me.”