Grooving their way to fertility or not

Take Gaborone, for example – bearing in mind that the 50th anniversary is almost on us. Let’s have a quick run through in respect of some of its more important buildings to see how well or poorly informed we happen to be. As a starter, who designed the National Assembly? Hm. Tricky. Try another one.

What about the four initial government office blocks? Or the enormous black and white office blocks that so dominate the government enclave? Awkward. Yes, I suppose so. Let’s make it easier and ask about the Catholic Cathedral which, you may say, is unfair because two locally produced guide books, Alec Campbell’s and Mike Main’s Guide to Greater Gaborone and Patricia Farrow’s Complete City Guide, make no mention of either of the city’s two cathedrals which is a puzzle in itself.  You may therefore prefer to try your luck with the Pula Arch which Campbell/Main ignore whilst Farrow suggests that it was put there in 1966. Other authorities have maintained that it was whimsically erected to celebrate either the tenth or twentieth anniversaries of Independence.