Browsing Research articles (Dept of History) by Subject "Botswana"
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Bid to settle Jewish refugees from Nazi-Germany in Botswana, 1938-1939
(Botswana Society / www.botsoc.org.bw, 2006)This article demonstrates that while Adolf Hitler's Nazis were busy persecuting Jews in Germany there was an attempt made by the colonial authorities in Botswana, South Africa and Britain to settle some Jewish refugees in ... -
Comparative aspects of farm labour in twentieth century Botswana
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2007)This article focuses mainly on the Tuli block and Ghanzi farming areas because they were and still are the most economically viable. The aim of this article is to draw a comparison between the labour situation in Ghanzi ... -
Critical factors in cultural tourism in Botswana
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2008)This discussion is a critical assessment of the role of cultural factors in promoting tourism in Botswana. From the 1990s, the Botswana Government’s policy on tourism focused on involving local community participation in ... -
The Impact of Game Reserve Policy on the River BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana
(Blackwell Synergy; The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com, 2004-08)The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy on Bugakhwe, " River BaSarwa" (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of local community ownership and its ... -
The impact of Game Reserve policy on the river BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy on Bugakhwe, “River BaSarwa” (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of local community ownership and its ... -
The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ... -
A Leopard's Kopye burial at Mathangwane in northeastern Botswana
(South African Archaeological Society, http://www.archaeologysa.co.za, 2013)We report on a rare northern Leopard's Kopje grave in Botswana of a male from a small settlement, who, nonetheless, was buried with nine pots and many trade beads. The set of whole and decorated pots with traces of the ... -
Post-liberation xenophobia in Southern Africa: the case of the influx of undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants into Botswana, c.1995–2004
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2007)For the last two decades, Botswana has had a reputation as a ‘country of immigration’, based on the large-scale import of skilled expatriates from Africa, Asia, and the West. This policy has been accompanied by a general ... -
The state, crop production and differentiation in Botswana, 1947–1966
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)This article analyses the colonial government’s intervention in crop production in Botswana through the ‘progressive farmer’ scheme, from 1946 to independence in 1966. Crop production was not a highly remunerative venture ... -
Taxation in the tribal areas of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1899-1957
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)This essay examines, through taxation, the relationship between British colonial administrators, Tswana Dikgosi (chiefs) and their subjects in the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1899 to 1957. It argues that since ...