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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
June – Botswana is connected to Fiber-optic Internet. [1]: xliii 9 August – Botswana wins its first Olympic medal when Nijel Amos wins a silver in the men's 800 metres. [1]: xliii 9 August – The Diamond Trading Center is established. [1]: xliii 16 October – The Botswana High Court affirms that women have the right to inherit property.
Sebele I was a chief of the Kwena —a major Tswana tribe (morafe) in modern-day Botswana— who ruled from 1892 until his death in 1911. [4] During his lifetime, he resisted the 1885 Bechuanaland Protectorate [5] as well as the control of his domains by Cecil Rhodes' British South African Company, which was administering, by a royal charter signed in October 1889, his homeland in the ...
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent 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 northeast.
The following is a list of cities and towns or villages in Botswana with population of over 1,000 citizens in the year 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Capitals of the administrative divisions (cities, towns or districts) are shown in boldface.
Molepolole is a large village in Kweneng District, Botswana.. The people who reside in Molepolole are called Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana.The Bakwena Kgosi (Chief), Sebele I was among the three chiefs who went to England to seek protection from the British in the colonial era. [4]
History of Botswana by topic (5 C, 1 P) * Botswana history-related lists (5 P) C. Botswana chiefs (3 C, 18 P) D. Defunct organisations based in Botswana (2 C) E.
The Tsodilo Hills (Tswana: Lefelo la Tsodilo) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), consisting of rock art, rock shelters, depressions, and caves in Botswana, Southern Africa. It gained its WHS listing in 2001 because of its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peoples, as well as its unique record of human settlement over ...