The North-South road when it rained!

The old north-south road PIC: SANDY GRANT
The old north-south road PIC: SANDY GRANT

As each year passes, it becomes ever harder to comprehend the state of the country not just in the years before Independence but in the pre-diamond era. How many people today, to take this one instance, remember driving along the north-south road in conditions of this kind?

How many people would find it hard to believe that such conditions ever existed, not just with the minor, outback roads but in the country’s main highway, the A1? The point needs to be made that the conditions shown in this photo were not exceptions to the norm, they were the norm whenever there was a decent rain. Why this should have happened is a moral of its own kind.

Years of trying to make things better by bush dragging the road, steadily made it worse because bit by bit the level of the road became lower than the areas around it!  In normal conditions, the drive between Lobatse and Francistown was always likely to be difficult but when it rained, it was infinitely worse. Of course, it was only particular stretches of the road which became canals but these stretches did make it imperative for drivers to move carefully and slowly.

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