Divide Mogoditshane into two – Rakgare

When it released the 2022 Population and Housing Census preliminary results, Statistics Botswana revealed that Mogoditshane, which is among other villages connected to the capital city Gaborone, revealed that generally cities and towns have the highest population densities compared to predominantly rural districts.

Rakgare won the Mogoditshane constituency in 2019 under the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ticket. That was after he initially lost it in 2014 then under the Botswana Congress Party (BCP). He told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that he feels the constituency should be divided into two because in the 2011 statistics, there was a report that a Member for Parliament (MP) can only service a population of 35,000 people but that is determined by delimitation. He admitted that currently it is difficult to service such huge number of people and also address their complaints.