Financial woes delay Bathoen statue project

The committee needs over P200, 000 for the project and although there are some pledges to help in raising the amount needed to pay, the smelter company in Pretoria as well as the sculptor Masilonyane Radinoga, raising the total amount could take months.
Committee chairman, Kebapetswe Telekelo has told Arts and Culture that the statue has been completed and that only lack of funds has delayed its delivery from South Africa.
Various fund-raising activities have been held in Kanye, but most of them flopped and raised very little for the project.

"We need money to pay the sculptor and to pay the company that turned the statue into metal and we need nothing less than P200 000, the kind of money that we do not have at the moment, not even a small fraction of it," Telekelo said.