The paper hat manufacturer

Paper Hats
Paper Hats

The Economic Stimulus Package recently announced by the President made me wonder about local economic initiatives in the past which might have been boosted had such a programme then existed.

Local business initiatives were though, as far as I am aware, few and far between. The Protectorate Administration discriminated in favour of white businesses and generally discouraged both locals and Asian traders.

The Dikgosi were not much different ensuring that their own business ventures – bus transport with Bathoen and Molefi, for instance – had no competitors.  Few locals were able to set up as traders. But then there was a statement proudly set out on the front wall of one very ordinary building in Mochudi in the middle 1960s which suggested that not everything had always been what it seemed. 

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