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History of Botswana. 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.
t. e. The Raid on Gaborone (referred to as "Operation Plecksy" by the then South African Defence Force) took place on 14 June 1985 when South African Defence Force troops, under the order of General Constand Viljoen, crossed into Botswana violating International Law and attacked South African émigrés living in exile in Gaborone.
This was prior to the extension northward to include Ngamiland in 1890. The Bechuanaland Protectorate (/ ˌbɛtʃuˈɑːnəlænd /) was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingdom. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966. [ 2 ]
Battle of Dimawe. Coordinates: 24°45′43″S 25°37′49″E. Battle of Dimawe. Date. August 1852. (1852-08) over the course of 3–7 days. Location. Dimawe Hill, outside Mmankgodi, Kweneng District, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Gaborone, Botswana.
Botswana, [ c ] officially the Republic of Botswana, [ d ] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent 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 ...
Ancestral land conflict in Botswana. Ancestral land conflict over the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) arose in the 1970s between the government of Botswana and the San people (Bushmen), and is ongoing, resulting in one of the most expensive court cases in the history of Botswana. In the 1970s, conflict began over the relocation efforts by ...
Botswana has a dominant-party system in which the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has won every parliamentary election since independence. [3] Elections in Botswana are recognised as free and fair, [4] [1] and there are no legal restrictions against opposition parties, but the opposition alleges that the BDP has access to unfair electoral advantages while it is in power.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a liberal democracy. [clarification needed] It has several levels of political structuring, according to the Dayton Agreement. The most important of these levels is the division of the country into two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.