Molepolole

Molepolole combines the functions of a Bakwena settlement with increasing links to the employment economy of Gaborone. Botswana's planning authorities have identified its development as a residential base for workers travelling to the capital, making the relationship between local settlement and metropolitan growth a central planning issue.

The older settlement at Ntsweng provides a documented record of Tswana spatial organisation. Archaeological research identifies wards and evidence of cattle being kept within their centres; these findings concern the historic site rather than every present-day neighbourhood. Molepolole's urban context therefore includes both an inherited settlement structure and newer residential pressures associated with the expanding capital region.