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From mining enigma to reality
There have been many false starts, characterised only by talk but no activity. In the recent past, however, there has been a heightened pitch regarding the proposed P20 billion (US $4 billion) project comprising a coalmine and a 3,600 megawatts (MW) integrated coal-fired power station.Dead and forgotten
"Here, the dead choke to death," says the man clearing the shoulder high grass around one grave at the old Gaborone Cemetery in Extension 14. With the grass in the cemetery growing wild, it is almost impossible to locate some graves.The road to the power plant
A 30 kilometre drive off the main Gaborone-Francistown road at the Tropic of Capricorn, followed by a right turn that stretches for the next seven kilometres leads to some in descriptive cattle post, which appears to be in the middle of nowhere.
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