• The following lists events that happened during the 1960s in Botswana, beginning with its independence on 30 September 1966. President: Seretse Khama...
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    Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent...
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    development. Botswana's diamond industry is very important to its economy. Since the discovery of diamonds in Botswana in the late 1960s in the Orapa diamond...
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    economy of Botswana is currently one of the world's fastest growing economies, averaging about 5% per annum over the past decade. Growth in private sector...
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  • conducted in various villages around the country in the early 1960s, the first Miss Botswana beauty contest was in 1967, conducted as part of Botswana independence...
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  • Union, +267, in the late 1960s. xx xxxxx or xxx xxxxx – calling within Botswana +267 xx xxxxx or +267 xxx xxxxx – calling from outside Botswana The NSN length...
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  • The following lists events that happened during the 1990s in Botswana. President: Quett Masire (1980–1998) Festus Mogae (1998–2008) Vice President Peter...
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  • happened during the 1970s in Botswana. President: Seretse Khama (1966–1980) Vice President: Quett Masire (1966–1980) The Botswana Development Corporation...
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    Gaborone (redirect from Gaborone, Botswana)
    and largest city of Botswana with a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its agglomeration is...
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    of about US$70 per year in the late 1960sBotswana has since transformed itself into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The economy is...
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  • The following lists events that happened during the 1980s in Botswana. President: Seretse Khama (1966–1980) Quett Masire (1980–1998) Vice President Quett...
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  • citizens of Botswana. Some of them have taken an active part in politics. The discovery of diamonds and their mining from the late 1960s saw the beginning...
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    Botswana is a parliamentary republic in which the President of Botswana is both head of state and head of government. The nation's politics are based...
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  • the 1960s, when Botswana gained its independence from Britain and Gaborone became the capital, the city has grown from a small village in the Botswana scrubland...
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  • Township Rollers F.C. (category Association football clubs established in 1965)
    Township Rollers Football Club is a football club based in Gaborone, Botswana. Rollers are also known as Popa, The Blues or Tse Tala, the official nicknames...
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  • This is a list of years in Botswana. 1960s 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985...
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  • ˈlɛnʊ la ˈrʊna]; "Blessed Be This Noble Land") is the national anthem of Botswana. The music was composed by Kgalemang Tumediso Motsete, who also authored...
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    elections were held in Botswana on 16 October 1999, alongside local elections. The result was an eighth straight victory for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party...
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  • Debswana (category 1969 establishments in Botswana)
    De Beers Botswana Mining Company on the 23rd of June 1968, after De Beers geologists identified diamond-bearing deposits at Orapa in the 1960s. Over the...
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    Three Dikgosi Monument (category Bronze sculptures in Botswana)
    Permission was granted, and meant that the Botswana remained under direct British rule until independence in the 1960s. Six plinths at the feet of the statues...
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  • Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa (category National liberation movements in Africa)
    (Namibia), and ZAPU and ZANU–PF (Zimbabwe). In 2019, the Botswana Democratic Party, the ruling party of Botswana, joined the FLMSA. Southern African Development...
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  • Selibe Phikwe) is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 42,488 in 2022. The town is an administrative district...
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    introduced to Botswana from South Africa by European explorers and colonists in the 19th century. The number of horses increased sharply in the second half...
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  • Cinema of Botswana (or cinema in Botswana) comprises film-making in the Southern African country of Botswana, both before and after Botswana's independence...
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    President of South Africa (category All Wikipedia articles written in South African English)
    systems in a unique manner. Only Botswana and a few other countries use a similar system. Between 1996 and 2003 Israel combined the two systems in an opposite...
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    Derek Jones (mayor) (category Protestant missionaries in Botswana)
    independent Botswana's new capital in the 1960s, it needed a government. Vice-President Quett Masire urged him to run for city council as a Botswana Democratic...
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    Khoisan (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2018)
    prevalent groups, and Botswana. Considerable mingling with Bantu-speaking groups is evidenced by prevalence of click phonemes in many especially Xhosa...
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    Africa (redirect from Politics in Africa)
    Domestic Stock in Southern Africa" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009. "Botswana History Page 1: Brief History of Botswana". Retrieved...
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    San people (category Ethnic groups in Botswana)
    River in Botswana and Etosha National Park in northwestern Namibia, extending up into southern Angola; central peoples of most of Namibia and Botswana, extending...
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    Southern African Development Community (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. The SADC's goal is to further regional socio-economic cooperation...
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