Market tenants sent packing

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FRANCISTOWN: As the Francistown City Council (FCC) prepares to evict traders from a marketplace in central Francistown, the tenants, some of them having been there for decades, have accused the council of killing their businesses, hence depriving them of their livelihood.

The tenants admitted to Mmegi that they might be relocated to Block 2, which for them is not viable because it is too far from their customers who are mostly in the city centre.

In an interview with Mmegi, the mayor of Francistown James Kgalajwe disclosed that the tenants at the central market stalls face eviction as the FCC is in the process of handing over the site to an unnamed developer, who had planned to begin building at the beginning of this month.

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