Brick moulders sink with Gaborone Dam

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Bricks prepared for burning chamber PIC KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

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Along the banks of the dried up Gaborone Dam, Mmegi Photojournalist, KAGISO ONKATSWITSE finds that the parched dam has also taken along with it, the livelihoods of many brick moulders who hitherto had made a thriving business, utilising the water from natural springs and streams fed by the dried-up dam to make bricks.

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