Serendipity

Old news perhaps, but I noticed a Zimbabwe news site quoting from the Botswana Daily News of 13 July, 2004

Khama laments destruction of Botswana/Zim electric fence
BOBONONG - The Vice President Seretse Khama Ian Khama has lamented that government's efforts to electrify the border fence between Botswana and Zimbabwe had borne no fruit as people cut the fence and stolen the solar panels.

How to encourage energy self-sufficiency in the surrounding population - build a solar powered electric fence ...