Sekgoma�s house, Serowe (5)

He said that, the people of Serowe, ‘must never repeat the mistake they did with the colonial Resident Commissioner’s house that was demolished to make way for developments. ‘You have made a big mistake’, he advised them, which ‘must never happen again. You must preserve these buildings because they are our national heritage.” These remarks now need to be given careful consideration by the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism so that they are made the basis for an entirely new Heritage policy.

That responsibility should not be left to the Department of National Museum which has not even been capable of producing a press statement about the Sekgoma House. All that we have been able to glean from it was the Director’s comment that it was renovated by his Department together with the Malwelamotse regiment.