Eswatini Mobile’s ‘Win a Million’ promotion back
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For the next three months, Eswatini Mobile customers will get a chance to win big.
MBABANE - The country’s First World network provider, Eswatini Mobile has brought back its ‘Win a Million’ promotion.
This means that for the next three months, Eswatini Mobile will get a chance to win big.
All that they have to do is dial
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To stand a chance, customers will be expected to participate for the next three months (April to June) by topping up E100 or more cumulatively each month to be automatically entered into the competition. For the nominated friends or family to be eligible to share in winnings, they must also top-up with E100 or more cumulatively each month.
The lucky winner will be drawn live on Eswatini Mobile’s Facebook page on the first of every month, May through July.
Each month the selected winner walks away with E150 000, while each of their 10 nominated friends or family get E30 000.
Eswatini Mobile is adding even more excitement with weekly E10 000 draws. Each week, a lucky winner will walk away with E5 000, and their 10 nominated contacts will receive E500 each.
The weekly draws will take place at the Siyabangena roadshows to be held every Saturday.
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To stay update, customers should follow Eswatini Mobile on social media: Instagram @officialeswatinimobile and Facebook @ Eswatini Mobile. They should also make sure that they do not the company’s events which include activations and roadshows.
In August 2021, 24-year-old Nozipho Kunene walked home smiling after she was announced as the winner of the E1 million and was presented with her cheque. When accepting the E1 million cheque, the young woman detailed how the money came at the right time when she was unemployed and needed money to kick- start a business of selling beauty products and eventually enrol at a college. The competition had been launched in May the same year and Kunene was selected from over 80 000 customers who had qualified for the draw.
In total, about 83 872 cellphone numbers had qualified for the draw.
When it was launched, it was said that the competition was open to all Eswatini Mobile customers, post- paid and pre-paid and it ran between May and July.
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In order to take part in the promotion, all customers needed to do was to recharge with a minimum of E100 which could be a once off or multiple recharges.
At the end of each month, the company conducted a draw and a winner was announced publicly.
The first winner, Lucky Mamba, took home E500 000 following a draw that was conducted on June 1, 2021.The second winner, Nondumiso Mkhabela, took home E750 000, following a draw that was conducted last month.
With the final prize being the E1 million won by Kunene, it meant that the company had given away E2 250 000 in total.
On top of that, the promotion has seen several emaSwati winning other lucrative prizes and money amounting to up to E5 000, during road shows conducted countrywide.
In both draws, the company recorded over 60 000 customers who stood a chance to win.
Following the success of the first competition, Eswatini Mobile found itself with no choice but to launch a second edition a few months later.
What separated the second edition from the first one was that this time around, the E1 million grand prize was not going to be just for one person, but he or she was to share it with 10 others who would form part of his or her group.
As the case with the first edition, the second edition was an airtime recharge-based promotion that required Eswatini Mobile customers to recharge with E100 in each of the months October, November, and December in order to stand a chance to win cash. The money to be won was to be E500 000, E750 000 and E1 000 000 in each of the three months respectively.
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Since the concept focused on groups, for the months of October, November, and December, 11 lucky customers shared each month’s winnings by simply loading the E100 airtime in that month. The drawn winner walked away with 50 per cent of the prize money and the other 50 per cent was shared equally amongst his or her 10 family and friends.
It was on January 2022, that a civil servant under the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Mveni Mnisi was drawn as the winner of the E1 million grand prize. As per the rules, Mnisi took home E500 000 of the E1 million while the other half was shared among 10 people who were nominated by him.
The 10 people got E50 000 each. The company then conducted a draw to select two eligible customers who had loaded the E100 airtime.
A total of 97 165 mobile phone numbers were eligible for the final draw.