'We worked to create wealth for the nation'

SELEBI-PHIKWE: There are conflicting views on how the town, which prides itself on being the only town in Botswana with a surname, acquired its double-barreled name.
It sits on what was once crop-farming lands and cattleposts belonging to the people of Mmadinare.

This was before October 1962 when the discovery of copper-nickel deposits was first made at Selebi and before there was anything resembling the present network of roads in the area.