The Molotwana graveyard � Who is responsible?
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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’.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...