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The date celebrates Botswana's Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on September 30, 1966. [ 1 ] Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks , parades , fairs , picnics , concerts , family reunions , and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history ...
The Republic of Botswana was granted full independence in 1966. With a strong mandate, Seretse and his party implemented liberal democracy and began developing infrastructure in what was one of the world's poorest nations. Extensive diamond deposits were discovered in 1969, causing a massive reorganisation of Botswana's economy.
Balliol College, Oxford. Profession. Barrister. Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama, GCB, KBE (1 July 1921 – 13 July 1980) was a Botswana politician who served as the first President of Botswana, a post he held from 1966 to his death in 1980. [2][3][4] Born into an influential royal family of what was then the British protectorate of ...
The Tlôkwa people, Lete people, Hurutshe people, Mmanaana Kgatla, and Rolong people migrate to present-day Botswana. [1]: xxiv. 30 August – The Kwena people repel an invasion by the Transvaal Republic in the Battle of Dimawe. [1]: xxv. 1853. January – Transvaal and the Kwena people come to a peace agreement.
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 ]
Botswana has made educational progress since independence in 1966 when there were only 22 graduates in the country [178] and only a very small percentage of the population attended secondary school. Botswana increased its adult literacy rate from 69% in 1991 to 83% in 2008. [ 179 ]
July – The Bushmen Protection Bill is passed. [ 3] August – President Khama visits Zambia. [ 3] 29 September – The Mineral Rights in Tribal Territories Act and the Mines and Minerals Act grant the government control over mining. [ 3] 19 October – Botswana's High Commission for East Africa in Nairobi is opened by Richard N. Mannathoko. [ 3]
The three dikgosi were dubbed "Founders of the Nation" by the government-owned Kutlwano Magazine at the time of Botswana's independence in 1966. Over the following decades they were adopted as "icons of unitary nationalism advocating renewed independence". [1] In 1990, the House of Chiefs proposed that they be commemorated in a public monument ...