A requiem as Gaborone Dam gives up the ghost

Friday, October 10, 2014

In the space of just two weeks, senior public sector officials have put paid to the unspoken fears of every resident of Greater Gaborone. Old Faithful, tired and strained, is giving up the ghost. Even as Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, pens this requiem, the brown, murky waters at Gaborone Dam are descending below the level of the pumps that push supply

In recent weeks, concerned spirituals and ordinary citizens have visited Gaborone Dam to cast their hands over its brown/green waters and pray for a miracle.

Standing by the banks of what was the country’s biggest dam for 48 years, heart-felt supplications have been made, eyes teary as they contemplate the great beast before them, its knees sunken into the silt, its once shimmering pride an ashen memory.

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