The Molotwana graveyard � Who is responsible?

Kgosi Kgafela Linchwe at Malotwana graveyard
Kgosi Kgafela Linchwe at Malotwana graveyard

Within this small graveyard are buried two people whose presence there is bound to prompt surprise and inevitably speculation.

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’.

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