Gantsi, the forgotten city

Monday, April 20, 2015

I spent the whole of yesterday afternoon examining Gantsi and its opportunities and realised that for a country to diversify, let’s have Gantsi on our minds.

Gantsi has a potential to be urbanised to become a great town.

For a nicely and strategically located township just 500km away from Windhoek, Namibia surely something must give. I understand the old airport is to be made obsolete and thus a new CBD is envisaged. I urge Botswana Investment Trade Facility (BITF), CEDA, Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) to take a trip to the South West and ponder. Gantsi can be our beef capital and other opportunities beckon.

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