A Lobatse Heritage Centre
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Two others of that interesting family were also present when it was formally opened in 1950, Mr HS Ebrahim and the young Ajam Ebrahim. Those who make the moves towards setting up a Heritage Centre should resist any notions that this would be the same as a museum. Museums have collections of artefacts which have to be securely, appropriately stored, researched and expensively displayed. Heritage Centres have no artefacts.
A Lobatse Centre would need someone, perhaps several people, all voluntary and part-time who together relish a challenge, are inquisitive, capable of doing small scale research, imaginative, almost certainly locally born and/or familiar with the town, able to communicate verbally and in writing, be comfortable with people of all backgrounds and races and be computer capable. With all this, paper qualifications become irrelevant. It will only be possible to establish a Heritage Centre if sufficient support is forthcoming from within the town. An office would need means of communicating – a Mac, a printer, phone and so on. Tools such as Facebook could be helpful.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...