What shall we tell orphans in the bar?

Ginger shopping centre is an interesting place indeed. It is either called Jinja or spelt Ginger.

A senior citizen who is familiar with the  history of Gaborone claims that  this area, probably a strip like the chaotic and bloody Gaza in the Palestinean Middle East, was so named  Jinja and not Ginger,  in April 1979.

According to him, at the time this area was being demarcated by the Gaborone Town Council for development, the then Ugandan dictator Field Marshall Idi Amin was at the Ugandan eastern town of Jinja---whereupon rests the source of the world's second longest river after Mississipi---River Nile. It is reported that it was at this town that Amin sought to assure Ugandans and the whole world that he was still in control of the former Pearl of Africa yet he was in fact fleeing from the amphibious and eardrum bursting Saba Saba artilleries and the accompanying bombs that swept him from his 25 January 1971- 11 April 1979 reign of terror, as known to observers. The Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF), with the blessing of the then Tanzanian president Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, commanded the expedition with the Ugandan rebel exiles in tow.

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