Mma Ramotswe set changes the face of Kgale View

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Kgale View is known for its only tiny shopping mall. Now you would be confused to find that just before you enter the familiar Kgale View Mall, there stands another shopping centre. The new addition looks like it has been there for years, looking at the structure of the buildings, and the worn out road that leads to it.

The additional structure at Kgale view happens to be a movie set for the on going production of the No.1 Lady's Detective Agency. The kgale view set is a reconstruction of the old African mall in Gaborone.

Before new structures took over, the African mall used to be the face of Gaborone; the centre for merchandise and that picture is being recreated in this scene. You see here and there a tailor busy sewing clothes, a cobbler mending shoes, a small 'semausu', or tuck shop, selling oranges. Street vendors are fairly well represented, with selling the wares, including oranges from an old Toyota Hilux van.

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