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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.
The history of Botswana encompasses the region's ancient and tribal history, its colonisation as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and the present-day Republic of Botswana. The first modern humans to inhabit Botswana were the San people , and agriculture first developed approximately 2,300 years ago.
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The Vision 2016 economic plan is launched. [2]: 2 Botho University is founded.; April – Omang national identity cards are introduced. [2]: xxxviii October – A referendum is held to create the Independent Electoral Commission, to lower the voting age to 18, to set term limits on the presidency, and to allow automatic succession of the vice president in the event of a presidential vacancy.
The Botswana Development Corporation is established. [2]: 95 Botswana establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. [3]January – The power to allocate tribal land is transferred from the kgosis to independent land boards under the Tribal Land Act.
The Botswana National Stadium opens. 30 September – The Bechuanaland Protectorate is granted independence as Botswana. Seretse Khama is chosen as the first president of Botswana by the National Assembly. [2] 17 October – Botswana is admitted to the United Nations. [3] November – The Zambia high commission opens in Gaborone. [3]
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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.