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What contribution can senior citizens make towards the economic and social development of Botswana?
(African Education Research Network, http://www.ncsu.edu/aern/, 2006-12)
Senior citizens (pensioners) have been known by society to be people who have exhausted their
worth and wealth of expertise and knowledge and for that matter have no role to play or have no
further contribution to make ...
Counteracting the threat of language death: the case of minority languages in Botswana
(Routledge. http://www.informaworld.com, 2006-03)
When Botswana gained independence from the British in 1966, a political decision was taken to designate English as an official language and Setswana, one of the indigenous languages, as a national language. This move ...
Sociolinguistic research and academic freedom in Malawi: past and current trends
(Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES). http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sare.html, 2006-10)
During the first 30 years of Malawi’s independence (1964-1994), the country was under
President Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s one-party authoritarian rule. In line with Banda’s
nation-building ideology, Malawi pursued the ...
Language planning in Botswana and Malawi: a comparative study
(Walter de Gruyter, http://www.degruyter.de, 2006-11)
The article discusses language planning in two Southern African countries,
Botswana and Malawi. Both countries are multilingual and multicultural.
They also share a common British colonial history. At independence, ...
No easy walk to linguistic freedom: a ritique of language planning during south Africa's first decade of democracy
(Nordic Association of African Studies. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi, 2006)
In 1994, South Africans of all races and political parties took part in the first democratic elections. The election and inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first black president marked the beginning of a new era - an ...