Poverty-stricken Kanaku pleads for help

Kanaku is among the country’s poorest villages according to a Statistics Botswana research. It is located in the same area as Kutuku, a village officially known as the country’s poorest, according to the data agency.

Statistics Botswana figures show that 81 of the estimated 216 residents, or more than one in three stragglers here, are classified as poor. During a Kgotla meeting last Thursday, the desperately poor villagers pleaded with the legislator to address issues of employment in their area.