Water wars boil over in D�Kar
Friday, August 22, 2014
Kuru Development Trust officials found themselves on the back-foot at a Kgotla meeting recently, when enraged D’Kar residents demanded answers on why acute water shortages were persisting in their area despite assurances of relief.
Almost exclusively inhabited by Basarwa of the Kuru tribe, D’Kar is a village in Gantsi of about 1,000 residents which began as a farm then developed into a church-run settlement.
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...