But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand”. So the Lord scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. ‘That is why it was called Babel ………… because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world…” (The Gospel according to the book of Genesis)
Selibe-Phikwe turned into a ‘Tower of Babel’ beginning the weekend of October7, 2016. Government officials descended on the town. They spoke in tongues. They told the Selebi-Phikwe residents, in particular the men who worked in the BCL copper mine that the mine, the mainstay of their economic lives had been placed under voluntary liquidation. In other words the mine was henceforth closed. On that one point the men spoke the same language - the copper mine would cease operations.
