Moshupa: The President's village

Small boy walking in Moshupa PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Small boy walking in Moshupa PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

MOSHUPA: Giant hills adorning the village of Moshupa, just 56km west of the capital city Gaborone, are spectacular.

The smartly-packed gigantic boulders give the village a rare view with an irresistible picturesqueness that is certainly a tourist attraction.

Viewing Moshupa from the summit of any of the many hills in the village provides the requisite bird’s eye view of the village that is growing in every direction. Fresh air literally envelopes  one country’s incoming fifth President Mokgweetsi Masisi. Now, the excited villagers here have something to talk about just like Serowe, Kanye and Palapye have produced the first to fourth state presidents. Moshupa in the Southern District is the second village south of the Dibete cordon fence to produce a state President since independence in 1966. The late Sir Ketumile Masire, the country’s second president was from Kanye in the Southern District.

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