Floods exposed shoddy jobs of our infrastructure

Mid-December 2016, they warned Batswana that the second half of the rainy season in January and February 2017 will be characterised by heavy rains countrywide, with a risk of flooding on the scale of the disasters that occurred in 2000. We applauded the Meteorological Department.

They reminded us of the worst floods ever in the 1999/2000 rainy season that covered huge areas of Botswana. We all know that the Southern African region experienced successive El Nino events during the cropping seasons of 2014/2015, characterised by extremely dry conditions, heatwaves, drying up of major dams and associated crop and livestock failure.