Ominous threat hangs over wretched vendors

FRANCISTOWN: Though the threat of evicting them has not (yet) been carried out, the remaining vendors in Francistown's old mall are still uneasy.

Law enforcement officers of the City Council of Francistown (CCF) went around Botswana's second city warning the vendors, especially unlicensed ones, to vacate their posts or face imminent removal.

That was done in subsequent days, leaving the wretched informal traders a bundle of nerves on the kerb - their ramshackle structures wrecked, their livelihoods in ruins.

Editor's Comment
UDC's 100 Days: Please deliver your promises!

We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...

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