 Most of the early town was built within three years, as a small town designed to accommodate 20 000 people- only to later develop after independence into a modern city.Buildings in early Gaborone include assembly buildings, government offices, a power station, a hospital, schools, a radio station, a telephone exchange, police stations, a post office, and more than 1,000 houses.Because the town was built so quickly, there was a massive influx of labourers who had built illegal settlements on the new city's southern industrial development zone.