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2007 – Uranium deposits are discovered in Botswana. [2]: 22 2008 The Public Service Act of 2008 allows the creation of the labour union BOFEPUSU. [1]: 3 March – The Diamond Trading Company Botswana is established. [3] April – Ian Khama becomes President of Botswana. [2]: 20 2009 16 October – The 2009 Botswana general election is held ...
Evidence shows that there have been inhabitants along the Notwane River for centuries, all the way back to the Middle Stone Age. [9] The area that is now modern-day Botswana was inhabited exclusively by the Khoikhoi pastoralists, who valued cattle because of nutritional benefits, [10] until around the 8th century CE when the Toutswe people arrived in Botswana.
By 1973, diamonds made up 10% of Botswana's GDP, [222] and by the end of the 1970s, mining was the largest industry in the country. [235] The government of Botswana renegotiated its mining agreement with De Beers between 1971 and 1975, shifting the majority of earnings to the nation. [ 236 ]
Google Drive for desktop based on File Stream, which will support features previously exclusive to each respective Client. [26] Google stopped supporting Backup and Sync as of October 1, 2021. [28] In 2023, a bug in Google Drive for Desktop resulted in a small number of files over a period of 6-months to disappear from user's accounts. [29]
Botswana Government Gazette is the official publication of the Government of Botswana and publishes laws, ordinances and other regulations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The government gazette is printed by Government Printing and Publishing Services.
According to historian Neil Parsons, the earliest known surviving copy of a film recorded in Botswana dates back to between 1906 and 1907. [2] According to him, a London, England–based company owned by a man named Charlie Urban sent cameramen to record a documentary about the Bechuanaland Railways trip to Victoria Falls, a train trip which passed through territory of what is today's country ...
The San people (or Basarwa [1], formerly known as "Bushmen" [2]), are one of the oldest cultures on Earth; they have lived in the area around the Kalahari Desert much longer than neighboring tribal groups. [2] Much tribal land in Botswana, including land occupied by the San, was lost during European colonization, and the pattern of loss of land ...
The Bogosi Act is a piece of legislation in Botswana that defines the office of bogosi or "chieftainship" among Botswana's various tribes.The act was written in response to the Balopi Commission recommendation that the Constitution of Botswana replace all references of the word "chief" to the Setswana word kgosi.