The Molotwana graveyard � Who is responsible?
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The first is William Harbour who died in April 1919 whose remains are marked with an obelisk style headstone. Was he the person who owned and ran the hotel which used to provide a meal for passengers whilst the train was slowly taking on water?
Was he buried here so that he might perhaps be more comfortable with white than with black – this being, in its way, a segregated graveyard. The other individual, about whom I have previously written in Mmegi (27.9.09) is Tpr. Bard Pendeleton Schenck from Baltimore aged, surprisingly, 36, who died on the 10th March 1900 ‘at Mochudi, Bechuanaland’.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...