Facebook helps trace "original owners of Gaborone"

Facebook has helped the national museum and art gallery in Botswana trace the original owners of Gaborone, a white settler , the Dan Le Cordeur Senior's family which used to own virtually all of Gaborone land, from Broadhurst to Kgale Hill.

Chief Curator at the National Museum in Gaborone Philip Segadika said this as he recounted the history of one of the country's heritage sites, the Bonnington Silos, which used to be owned by the Dan Le Cordeur Senior's family.

The national museum and art gallery last week held    a seminar to celebrate the International Museum Day .

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