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GCC evicts Ledumang car wash businesses

Car wash businesses in Ledumang will now pave way for GCC developments PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Car wash businesses in Ledumang will now pave way for GCC developments PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Gaborone City Council (GCC) often goes into conflict with small traders around the capital. However, this time around their clash is not with street vendors but the brawl involves car wash owners in Ledumang ward along the railway.

GCC now wants the busiest car wash businesses in the city to evacuate and pave way for the city developmental plans. The car wash businesses have employed majority of out of school youth and the unemployed.

Their businesses start at the Ledumang four-way stop and stretches all the way to the railway. Now that GCC wants to evict them, but the car wash business owners do not welcome the development and now they feel it is just another strategy by the municipality to dispossess them of their car washes. They feel that GCC wants to take away bread from their mouths.

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