Brick moulders sink with Gaborone Dam

Bricks prepared for burning chamber PIC KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Bricks prepared for burning chamber PIC KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

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.

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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