Gaborone - When Were the Errors Really Made? (2)

Monday, October 03, 2016

It does appear that little importance was given by the Legislative Council to the availability of the largely unutilized Crown Reserve in Gaborone which could be immediately available as the site of the new capital.

The exception was Seretse for whom a neutral, non-tribal, non-racial site was an imperative.

Evidently, he did not take seriously the claims that tribal leaders (such as himself) would happily make land available for the new capital were this to be required. Similarly, the availability of the Gaborone Crown Reserve would have been of great appeal to the invariably parsimonious British Government.

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Gaborone - When Were the Errors Really Made? (2)

It does appear that little importance was given by the Legislative Council to the availability of the largely unutilized Crown Reserve in Gaborone which could be immediately available as the site of the new capital.