Gaborone Sebele Halt - Our Heritage

When the passenger service was discontinued five years ago, it could perhaps have had the effect of bringing the pre-railway axis back to the life- and the revival of the old traditional capitals, Kanye, Molepolole and Shoshong. 

This didn’t happen because those centres had been by-passed not just by the railway but by the new road that more or less accompanied the railway line from south to north.  Because the Dikgosi of the two smaller tribes, the Bakgatla and the Balete, had less land to provide for the new railway, the capitals of each one, Mochudi and Ramotswa, were well positioned to take advantage of the main north south road when the passenger service came to an end.