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Botswana retained much of its pre-colonial tribal institutions after independence. [ 182 ] [ 183 ] This was an effect of both the strong centralised government associated with the Tswana tribes and the relatively limited intervention of the British government in colonial times. [ 43 ]
June – Botswana is connected to Fiber-optic Internet. [1]: xliii 9 August – Botswana wins its first Olympic medal when Nijel Amos wins a silver in the men's 800 metres. [1]: xliii 9 August – The Diamond Trading Center is established. [1]: xliii 16 October – The Botswana High Court affirms that women have the right to inherit property.
Evidence shows that there have been inhabitants along the Notwane River for centuries, all the way back to the Middle Stone Age. [9] The area that is now modern-day Botswana was inhabited exclusively by the Khoikhoi pastoralists, who valued cattle because of nutritional benefits, [10] until around the 8th century CE when the Toutswe people arrived in Botswana.
The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-298-6. Lekorwe, Mogopodi H. (1998). Botswana, Politics and Society. J.L. van Schaik. ISBN 978-0-627-02231-9. Makgala, Christian John (2006). Elite Conflict in Botswana: A History. Africa Institute of South Africa.
History of Botswana (second ed.). Gaborone, Botswana: MacMillan Botswana. ISBN 978-99912-78-08-7. Harrigan, Walter et al. Report of the judicial enquiry Re Seretse Khama of the Bamangwato tribe (1 December 1949), reproduced in Botswana Notes and Records, Vol 17 (1985), pp. 53–64. Mogalakwe, Monageng (2006).
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The republic of Botswana (formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland) is named for the Tswana people. The country's eight major tribes speak Tswana , which is also called Setswana. All have a traditional Paramount Chief, styled Kgosikgolo , who is entitled to a seat in the Ntlo ya Dikgosi (an advisory body to the country's Parliament ).
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the northeast.