The Botswana government has approached authorities in Namibia through the Namibian Embassy in Gaborone with a view to erect a monument in honor of Namibia's founding leaders.
 
Expected to be built in Bluetown in Francistown, it will serve as a commemoration and remembrance of Namibia's fallen heroes who fought for the country's liberation struggle.
 
Namibia's founding president, Sam Nujoma, alongside fellow liberation struggle heroes such as former presidents Hifikepunye Pohamba, Hage Geingob, and Nangolo Mbumba, has been accommodated at the famous White House from around the 1960s until around 1990.
 
The place is rich in history, as Nujoma turned these premises into a place of meetings with counterparts from revolutionary parties within the Southern African Development Community region, as they planned to free Namibia from the colonial jaws.
 
It is against this backdrop that the governments of Botswana and Namibia will jointly build a monument in the form of a building and statues that will serve as a cultural and historical site telling of the long-time bond that exists between the two neighbours. 
 
 Botswana’s Minister of Environment and Tourism Wynter Mmolotsi says consultations are ongoing.
 
“We are going to be in consultation with the Namibian people to establish what it is that they would like to do in that area. Of course, they are already aware of it. The former president actually came here and visited the place, and that president is the one who actually stayed there. And therefore, we believe that the Namibian government will be willing to pursue something much better than what is there because it talks more to their history and the history of Botswana and the ties and friendship we have enjoyed as countries.”
 
 
In October last year, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah described the renaming of Field Street in Windhoek in honor of Botswana's founding president, Sir Seretse Khama, as a symbolic act that reflects a new chapter in the shared history between the two countries.