Lobatse

District

Lobatse, one of the oldest cities in Botswana with 30,883 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005), is for the domestic economy is of great importance.

Economy and infrastructure

This place is situated at the intersection of important land and railway connections in the South African Republic. Lobatse hosts among other things an important branch of the Geological Survey of Botswana, which deals with the geology and hydrogeology.

Lobatse has the largest slaughterhouse in southern Africa and exported meat to neighboring countries as well as in the European Union, with which a commercial contract.

A slaughterhouse affiliated subsidiary tanned incurred animal skins and it was up in the years 1995 and 1996 quite a profitable business with leather of all kinds This company had to cease operations because environmental regulations have not been respected. The problem was the purification of waste water, as they were disposed of uncleaned.