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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 ...
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891-2005
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis group), http://www.routledge.com, 2009)
Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north south divide existed for a long time merely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ngwato atitudes towards Zimbabwean immigrants in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1950s
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)
This article is a modest sketch of
the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers
in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise ...
History and perceptions of regionalism in Botswana, 1891 – 2005
(Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713429127, 2009)
Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north-south divide existed for a long time merely ...
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 ...
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 ...
The decline in the role of chieftainship in elections
(University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit/http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2000)
This article focuses on three districts of Botswana, namely Central District, Ngwaketse District
and Kgatleng District. It argues that as a result of the role played by the institution of
chieftainship in elections, ...