Letshego Africa Holdings Limited (“LAHL” | “the Group” | “Letshego” | “Letshego Africa”) was incorporated in 1998, is headquartered in Gaborone and has been publicly listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) since 2002. Letshego is an inclusive finance organisation extending microfinance, banking and consumer lending solutions in eleven subsidiaries across sub-Saharan Africa.
Today, the Group launched the change of name of Letshego’s Holding Company from Letshego Holdings Limited to ‘LETSHEGO AFRICA HOLDINGS LIMITED’.
Marking the name change at the Opening Bell event held at the Botswana Stock Exchange, Letshego’s Group Board Chairman, Mr Philip Odera, noted the significance of the name change as reflective and reiterative of Letshego’s differentiating pan-African presence and reach in terms of extending inclusive financial solutions to underbanked communities across the continent’s emerging markets.
In addition, the Group is initiating an annual ‘Letshego Africa Day’ on the first Friday of every December. This annual anniversary will serve to celebrate, share and promote the value that Letshego’s inclusive finance strategy achieves in terms of social, environmental and economic development returns across the continent.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, Friday 8 December 2023
PHILIP ODERA
Group Chairman
AOBAKWE MONYATSI
Group Chief Executive
About Letshego Africa Holdings Limited
The Letshego Group is an African multinational, first opening its doors in Botswana in 1998 by offering loans to government employees.
Today, the Group has over 3,000 employees comprising more than 21 nationalities, and supports public and private sector individual customers, as well as micro and small entrepreneurs. Letshego has operations in 11 sub-Saharan African markets, including Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
Letshego Africa Holdings Limited (the Group holding company) is listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange, with additional listings including a subsidiary listing on the Namibian Stock Exchange, and bond listings on both the Ghana and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.