Old Naledi

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It is not so often that Old Naledi in Gaborone gets into the news, certainly not as it was in its earliest days. One obvious problem that confronts any commentator seeing it today is imagining what it might have looked like 50 years ago.

It’s a bit similar to seeing a newly constructed building and remembering what was previously there.  It is extraordinarily difficult.  But let’s take a step backward and try and recreate the Old Naledi of 50 years ago.

For reasons which I have never really understood, the British Administration which planned the new capital, Gaborone, failed to grasp that large scale construction, by far the biggest that had occurred in the entire history of the Protectorate, was bound to attract hundreds of mostly unskilled migrant labourers.

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