The dying Tati River (Part II)

Tati river PICS: KEOAGILE BONANG
Tati river PICS: KEOAGILE BONANG

As the debate on the dying Tati River rages on, this week we capture the voices of some elderly people who have lived in Bluetown, the proximity of the once mighty Tati River for decades. They reminisce vivid memories of their interactions with the river that is fast becoming a shadow of itself. Mmegi Scribe RYDER GABATHUSE writes

FRANCISTOWN: Dr. Veronica Makwinja becomes nostalgic when she reminisces about the river that was once a source of her livelihood, solace and entertainment many years ago.

Makwinja, 59, and her peers played house or mmantwane in the river that now is filthy and overgrown with vegetation (reds and others) and now a dumping site of all sorts of waste.

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