Rural pressure on Francistown for elusive jobs

Friday, May 29, 2020

Financial magnet: Francistown is the heart of economic activity for numerous villages

Villages in the periphery of the once glittering city of gold, Francistown, continue to put a strain on the economic abilities of the country’s northern city to provide elusive jobs. Mmegi Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE reports that the informal sector has been picking up the pieces where ends cannot meet in the formal

FRANCISTOWN: The un-rehabilitated mining sites around the 123-year-old city of Francistown, popularly known by its moniker ‘the Ghetto’ are a clear reminder of the gold rush of the late 1800s.

It was the gold rush that attracted thousands of people who came to eke a living in the then town of gold.

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