King Can of the informal resistance

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In the news: King Can has emerged as the hero of the u00e2u20acu02dcstruggleu00e2u20acu2122 PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

A defiant economic struggle unfolded at the Gaborone Bus Rank last weekend. It was a brave counter action by hawkers against Gaborone Hotel over a long disputed prime piece of land. A tall dark man, with a commanding baritone known as King Can, led from the front. Staff Writer THALEFANG CHARLES unmasks this unlikely hero of informal resistance and discovers a musician with an album

Batsweletse ‘King Can’ Mogabala first arrived in Gaborone in 1996. He was just a 17-year old Form Two dropout from Moshopha in Tswapong, coming to fight off the vicious poverty circle that was consuming him in the village. 

Six weeks into his first city job, as a casual labourer earning P350 per month, Mogabala called it quits. His second city job in 1997 brought him to the Bus Rank. And he never left.

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