Mabule villages need border gate � chief

Kgosi Lotlaamoreng is MP for Goodhope-Mabule
Kgosi Lotlaamoreng is MP for Goodhope-Mabule

MABULE: The village leadership here has called on the government to establish a border gate in the village amid a spate of cross-border stocktheft cases, which are increasing at an alarming rate.

In an interview, Mabule village chief, Lemson Kelekwang said lack of a border gate between Mabule village in Botswana and Mabule village in South Africa has always frustrated their efforts to fight stocktheft or retrieve stolen livestock.

He said perpetrators take advantage of the distance authorities have to travel between the two countries in order to trace the stolen livestock.

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