Mahalapye

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Mahalapye
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Mahalapye
Location of Mahalpye in Botswana
Coordinates: 23°06′S26°48′E / 23.100°S 26.800°E / -23.100; 26.800
CountryFlag of Botswana.svg  Botswana
District Central District
Government
  MayorTBA
Elevation
1,009 m (3,310 ft)
Population
 (2012) [1]
  Total
41,316
Time zone GMT +2
Climate BSh
Website http://mahalapye.cdc.gov.bw/

Mahalapye is a town located in the Central District of Botswana. The town has about 41,000 inhabitants and is situated along the main road between the capital Gaborone and the second largest city Francistown. Mahalapye has a bus station, a railway station, a couple of hotels and a market area with many shops and fast food restaurants, Water Shed mall is the latest attraction to those travelling from Gaborone to Francistown. It also has several petrol stations, some open 24 hours per day. Being situated on the edge of the Kalahari desert, the town and it's local waterways are quite dry, except during the rainy season. In recent times, it has become a convenient stop-over town for travelers travelling to and from Gaborone.

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This town is located on the Tropic of Capricorn. Thus at approximately 13:11 hours on 21 December, or at solar noon on Summer Solstice, the sun will be directly overhead at this site. To mark this geographic feature there is a small monument just outside town on the 23rd parallel, or 23 degrees South of the equator. At this time the sun will be directly above this monument where the sun reaches its furthest point South. At this point there will be no shadow on the monument. The record high temperature ever registered in Mahalapye was 41.9 °C (107.4 °F). [2] The lowest temperature registered in Mahalapye was −6.0 °C (21.2 °F). [2]

The Botswana Prison Service (BPS) operates the Mahalapye Prison. [3]

Notable people

Actor, writer and playwright Donald Molosi was born in Mahalapye in 1985. [4]

Duma Boko, president of Botswana was born in Mahalapye in 1969.

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References

  1. "2011 Census". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Botswana's Climate". Meteorological Services Botswana. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  3. "Prisons and Rehabilitation." (Archive) Government of Botswana. Retrieved on 26 March 2013.
  4. "Interview with Donald Molosi | indieactivity". indieactivity. 28 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2018.