Chicken Licken - The Fields Mall

Chicken Licken – The Fields Mall is a branch of the South African fried chicken chain Chicken Licken at The Fields Mall in the central business district (CBD) of Gaborone, Botswana. The outlet is certified halaal. The Botswana Muslim Association's list of halaal-certified entities as of June 2026 includes "Chicken Licken – The Fields Mall", as did the association's list of October 2024. The Fields Mall is a shopping centre of about 26,000 square metres on part of a nine-hectare mixed-use plot in the Gaborone CBD. The government's Daily News reported in 2020 that it was being built by Smart Partnership Enterprises, a citizen-owned company registered in 1998, at a cost of about P300 million, with some 70 shops planned. The mall opened in 2022. Chicken Licken was founded in 1981 in Ridgeway, Gauteng, by George Sombonos, and is run by Golden Fried Chicken (Pty) Ltd, which is headquartered in Johannesburg. Its hot wings were introduced in 1992. In 2013 the chain had 259 outlets, 12 of them in Botswana, and a figure of 18 Botswana outlets was reported for 2021. South Africa and Botswana are its remaining markets; outlets it once had in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mauritius, Lesotho and Eswatini have closed. Gaborone, founded in 1964 as the capital of Botswana, is the country's largest city, with 246,325 people at the 2022 census. Menus, prices and contact details for this outlet have not been published online.

The Fields Mall, 1st Commercial, Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone

The Fields Mall, Gaborone CBD

24°39′23″S 25°54′15″E

• Halaal certified