The Gaborone Village water tower

One of the more popular and enduring fallacies is that this imposing tower was constructed as an execution chamber. Doubtless, as with other fallacies, it will prove virtually impossible to eradicate this belief even though the evidence for it appears to rest on nothing more than the belief that the tower is an integral part of the old prison and its only possible function, therefore, must have been to provide a long drop for those sentenced to be hung.