Mabule villages need border gate � chief
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Kgosi Lotlaamoreng is MP for Goodhope-Mabule
In an interview, Mabule village chief, Lemson Kelekwang said lack of a border gate between Mabule village in Botswana and Mabule village in South Africa has always frustrated their efforts to fight stocktheft or retrieve stolen livestock.
He said perpetrators take advantage of the distance authorities have to travel between the two countries in order to trace the stolen livestock.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...