Brick moulders sink with Gaborone Dam

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Sekhu's gumboots are a testimony of hard work

Along the banks of the dried up Gaborone Dam, Mmegi Photojournalist, KAGISO ONKATSWITSE finds that the parched dam has also taken along with it, the livelihoods of many brick moulders who hitherto had made a thriving business, utilising the water from natural springs and streams fed by the dried-up dam to make bricks.

An air of sorrow now surrounds the Gaborone dam brick moulders.

The sand around them has turned soft like powder products, due to severe soil erosion, a stark contrast from yesteryears fruitful years of brick making.

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