Old Faithful pulls a Lazarus

The discovery of the now 91-year-old Roman Catholic Church at Gaborone Dam in 2014 was the sole morsel of good news in a tragedy marked by the deathwatch residents of Gaborone carried out for Gaborone Dam.

In November of that year, with Gaborone Dam just above five percent, I wrote on the discovery of the church, its altar and structures clearly visible for the first time since the Dam was built in 1963. Roman Catholic leaders would later inform me that prior to the Dam’s construction, the area had been a lively training institute replete with a thriving orchard.