Gaberone: Problems and Prospects of a New Capital

FOR eighty years (1885-1965), Botswana' had the dubious distinction of being the only territory whose administrative capital lay beyond its borders. Such an arrangement presented numerous difficulties during the protectorate era and would have presented insurmountable problems following independence. Thus better to meet the new demands the administration was shifted to Gaberone, a specially created capital ten miles west of the Transvaal border and ninety-six miles north of Mafeking, the former administrative center.