New Capitol Cinemas is a cinema chain in
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...
.
New Capitol Cinemas opened Botswana's first
cineplex in 2002, as a four-screen cinema complex in the Riverwalk Shopping Mall in
Gaborone
Gaborone ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census.
Gaboron ...
East.
In the same year, New Capitol Cinemas also opened a nine-screen cineplex at the Game Shopping Mall in Gaborone West.
One of the consortium members was Rizwan K. Desai, son of Abdul Kadir Desai, the businessman who had earlier owned the Capitol Cinema in the Mall.
In 2017 another New Capitol Cinemas was announced, at the Acacia Mall in
Phakalane. A Platinum Lounge, delivering restaurant food to cinema-goers, was opened there in 2019.
[Ame Motimane]
New Capitol Cinemas launches Platinum Lounge
''Mmegi Online'', 18 April 2019.
External links
New Capitol Cinemas website
References
2002 establishments in Botswana
Cinema of Botswana
Cinema chains in Botswana
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