Sponsors of the top flight Super League, TNM, has given out a grand prize of K1.5 million to Chirimba-based Be Forward Wanderers supporter, Zynab Kachingwe.
\nKachingwe emerged the lucky winner of an interactive SMS promotion for fans dubbed Zampira.
\nApart from the grand prize, the company has also given out K250,000 each to two lucky fans including another Nyerere supporter from Ntcheu Mariko Alufaneti. The two emerged winners from a pool of entries that correctly predicted that Wanderers would win the 2017 league title.
\nKachingwe hailed TNM for recognising the role of the fans.
\n\u201cI hope they will return with another promotion to keep the fans engaged in the 2018 season,\u201d he said.
\nTNM\u2019s Head of Marketing, Sobhuza Ngwenya, speaking during the cheque presentation at the company\u2019s Maselema Shop in Blantyre, thanked soccer lovers for supporting Zampira promotion whose aim was to actively engage soccer fans by way of predicting weekly results and predicting the 2017 Super League champions.
\n\u201cWe are very excited as sponsors to present the grand prize to Kachingwe. What is more pleasing is that the winner is a lady which defies the notion that football is a men\u2019s game. Through Zampira, TNM engaged with fans and recognised the role they play in the beautiful game of football. Zynab Kachingwe goes away home with K1.5 million,\u201d he said.
\nNgwenya said the presentation of the grand prize to the winner underlines TNM\u2019s commitment in developing football in the country.
\nOverall, Zampira promotion registered a total of 355,837 entries, out of which 14,375 were correct predictions representing a 4.03% accuracy rate. The match between Wanderers and rivals Nyasa Big Bullets registered the highest predictions at 41,408 with 2,028 correct ones while the game between Wanderers and Silver Strikers registered the lowest correct prediction rate of 0.3%.
\nThis followed total entries of 9,463 against 32 correct predictions.
\nThe company has given out over K12 million to soccer fans during weekly and monthly draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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