Molepolole CBD abandoned, businesses collapse

Seven years after the envisaged Molepolole Central Business District (CBD) the project is yet to take off. The dream for the all-purpose mall at Borakanelo ward seems to have gone up in smoke, in the process loosing investors millions of Pulas.

In fact, the abondentment of the CBD development has also cost the tax payer. While the council has nothing to show of a seven-year old dream, people have been relocated and paid for the inconvinience, and a consultant involved in the design of the mall has been paid his dues. Some neighbouring business people have lost as, on the council promise, had to renovate their properties in anticipation of the spinoffs.