Botswana

On 16 March 2018, Botswana became one of a dozen countries in East and Southern Africa that have launched its national demographic dividend study, at a milestone event officiated by the then-incoming President, the Honourable Mokgweetsi EK Masisi.

Khama, a former army general, is in a class of his own amongst Africa’s political elite. His father, Seretse Khama, became king of the Bangwato people at the age of four.

On 16 March 2016, a full bench of the Court of Appeal of Botswana delivered a significant judgment in the case of Attorney General v Thuto Rammoge and 19 Others, upholding the decision of the High Court and ordering the Botswana government to register the organisation Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals

With scores in attendance under white tents pitched on dusty sands on September 7, 2012, President Ian Khama officially launched the first of many mines on Botswana’s section of the 800-kilometre-long Kalahari Copperbelt.

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May Day, international workers day, started as a global general strike commemorating five anarchist labour organisers executed in 1887 in the USA. Mounting the scaffold, August Spies declared:

A $4.9bn diamond mine will open on September 5 in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the ancestral land of Africa’s last hunting Bushmen, exactly ten years after the Botswana government claimed there were “no plans to mine anywhere

The five-day workshop which ends on March 21, 2014 is designed by the Southern Africa Trust to enhance the capability of civil society leaders in southern Africa to engage policy makers and leaders in other sectors of society.

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