Browsing by Author "Mgadla, Part Themba"
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Of Botswana’s Administrative Centres and their movements: Vryburg, Mahikeng and Gaborone, 1885-1966
Mgadla, Part Themba (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)With Botswana celebrating a milestone 50th anniversary of Independence in 2016 a lot of activities took place in the country’s capital Gaborone –the unique History of which this paper refl ects on. This paper uses primary ... -
‘A very grave and expensive error’?: the Legislative Council’s debate on the choice of a new site for the Capital of Botswana, 1961-1965
Mgadla, Part Themba (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)This paper examines the reasons why it was considered appropriate for the capital of Botswana to be relocated in Gaborone from its administrative enclave in Mahikeng (in South Africa) where it had been for seventy years. ...