A rain making dance event is held in Mapoka every year at a special place called Gumbu.
All working professionals who are based in the cities use the holidays to visit their parents and families.
[citation needed] There is a local police station, a clinic with maternity ward, a post office and several small scale retail/general dealer stores.
[4] Past graduates of the school include Botswana's former chief justice Julian Nganunu, government ministers Charles Tibone and Phandu Skelemani, the late Knight Maripe who co-founded the opposition Botswana People's Party, Milenje City Kealotswe, Josia Moswela and a score of University of Botswana academics including Professor Richard Tabulawa,[5] and Dr Badala Tachilisa Balule [1].
In 2006, the school celebrated 106 years of existence in a ceremony officiated by the country's president Festus Mogae.