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Full: Gaborone Dam has now reached 100% PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Full: Gaborone Dam has now reached 100% PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

On July 22 last year, Mmegi Features ran an article entitled “After Hell Nino, glad tidings beckon for farmers,” in which a bold forecast was made of bumper harvests and a full Gaborone Dam by April 2017. We here reproduce an abridged version of the article originally written by Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

Through the fire

In December 2015, a Mmegi newscrew dispatched to the Kweneng and South-East districts met with the victims of El Nino, farmers and families hardest hit by a cruel cyclical climate phenomenon associated with heatwaves and poor rains in Botswana.

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