Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Botswana"
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Guide to the contents of Botswana National Archives
(2013-08-09)The current guide is an updated and revised version of the first guide which was done in 1984. It includes archives that have since been processed and accessioned into the national archives and private collections as well ... -
Impact assesment of the DLIS programme on the Botswana labour market
(2013-08-09)The study aims at assessing the impact and relevance of LIS programme on the labour market. It is hoped that the study will bring to light the range of practical skills and competencies that both graduates and employers ... -
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 implications of the National Archives and Records Services Act on archival practice in Botswana
(South African Society of Archivists, http://www.saarchivist.co.za/, 2018)Archival legislation is the basis for records and archives management in any country. The National Archives Act of Botswana was enacted in 1978 to give the Botswana National Archives and Records Services (BNARS) its mandate ... -
Investigating language vitality in some parts of North Eastern Botswana
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2017)The main objective of this article is to investigate the level of language vitality in Botswana on the basis of patterns of language use, transgenerational language transmission, language attitudes and ethno-cultural ... -
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 ... -
Leveraging public libraries and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver information services for development in Botswana: towards the information society
(2013-05-14)This paper outlines the initiatives the Government of Botswana has put in place with the aim to provide information access even to the most undeserved. The premise of the paper though, will be that in as much as there are ... -
Livingstone’s ideas of Christianity, commerce and civilization
(University of Botswana, National Institute of Development and Cultural Reseach, http://www.thuto.org/pula/html/pula-home-page.htm, 1998)David Livingstone is often misunderstood as being a conscious promoter of European colonization of Africa. On the contrary, he believed that the key to Africa's future was the stimulation of indigenous development and good ... -
Managing indigenous knowledge systems in Botswana using informatio and communication technologies
(2013-08-09)Indigenous Knowledge (IK)and Indigenous Knowledge Systems(IKSs)have long been undermined especially in Africa. Due to its intrinsic values and the advancement of information and communication Technologies (ICTs), only ... -
Patterns of language use and language preference of some children and their parents in Botswana
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) www.routledge.com, 2002)This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate that the majority of the children speak Setswana ... -
Politeness in language use in Tswana Kgotla meetings
(The Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea, http://eng.jwl.or.kr/, 2021-04-30)This paper focuses on politeness in language use in kgotla meetings among the Tswana ethnic groups of Balete, Bangwato and Bakhurutshe. It investigates how interlocutors’ use of language reflects social behaviour and how ... -
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 ... -
Preservation and management of audiovisual archives in Botswana
(Archlib and Information Services, http:www.hwwilson.com/journals; http://www.ajol.info, 2010)This paper reviews the state of the audio-visual collections held by different government institutions in Botswana. The rationale of such review rests on the observation that although audiovisual materials constitute a ... -
The reading behavior of junior secondary students during school holidays in Botswana
(International Reading Association, www.reading.org/, 2011)Reports of the poor reading culture of Batswana appear periodically in the popular media, especially the newspapers (see Baputaki, 2006; Hosia, 2007; Seboni & Swartland, 2009). These impressionistic reports speak of an ... -
Records management and service delivery: the case of Department of Corporat Services in the Ministry of Health, Botswana
(2013-08-09)This paper explores the role of records management in the delivery of public service in Botswana with specific reference to the Corporate Services Division at the Minisstry of Health Headquarters. -
The role of dictionaries in the documentation and codification of African languages: the case of Khoisan
(http://afrilex.africanlanguages.com/homelex.html, 2010)Khoisan speech communities are found in Southern Africa, with Botswana having the greatest ethnic and linguistic diversity. Living in small communities, the Khoisan have always found themselves in a situation of being ... -
Serial selection at the University of Botswana Library
(Emerald/www.emeraldinsight.com, 2000)Inconsistency and/or a lack of a clear understanding of the criteria for serial selection and evaluation have been observed to characterise the presentation of requests for approval of serials at the University of Botswana ... -
A Socio-pragmatic analysis of compliment responses among students at the University of Botswana
(University of Malawi, http://www.unima.mw/, 2017)Using tape-recorded interviews as well as Discourse Completion Tasks on compliment responses as elicitation methods, this study set out to investigate the linguistic resources that students at the University of Botswana ...