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Freedom of information in the SADC region: implications for development and human rights
(Emerald, 2006)
Abstract
Purpose – To argue that developing countries in the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) region should embrace the concept of freedom of information to enable better human rights
and economic ...
Design and implementation of an online information literacy module: Experience of the Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana
(Emerald Publishing Group td; www.emeraldinsight.com/oir.htm, 2006)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present findings of the design and implementation of an online information literacy module to first-year students at the University of Botswana. Design/methodology/approach - The ...
Literacy, ethnolinguistic diversity and transitional bilingual education in Malawi
(Taylor & Francis, http://www.tandif.co.uk/journals, 2006)
This paper examines recent attempts by the Malawi government to introduce local
languages into the primary school system and other secondary domains of national life, breaking more than 30 years of Chichewa/English monopoly. ...
The state, crop production and differentiation in Botswana, 1947–1966
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)
This article analyses the colonial government’s intervention in crop production in Botswana through the ‘progressive farmer’ scheme, from 1946 to independence in 1966. Crop production was not a highly remunerative venture ...
Dealing with backlog accumulations of archival materials in Eastern and Southern Africa
(SAGE Publications, http://idv.sagepub.com/, 2006)
Discusses the problems associated with managing semi-current and non-current in many archival institutions in eastern and southern Africa. The article seeks to answer some basic questions such as: Why do archival institutions ...
Empowering Africa’s developmentusing ICT in a knowledge management approach
(Emerald, www.emeraldinsight.com, 2006)
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore the role of information and communication
technology (ICT) using a knowledge management (KM) approach. The knowledge in the context of
this paper refers to indigenous ...
Design and implementation of an online information literacy module - experience of the Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana
(Emerald, 2006)
The purpose of this paper is to present findings of the design and implementation of an
online information literacy module to first-year students at the University of Botswana. The study population consisted of 103 ...
Bid to settle Jewish refugees from Nazi-Germany in Botswana, 1938-1939
(Botswana Society / www.botsoc.org.bw, 2006)
This article demonstrates that while Adolf Hitler's Nazis were busy persecuting Jews in Germany there was an attempt made by the colonial authorities in Botswana, South Africa and Britain to settle some Jewish refugees in ...
Ngwato atitudes towards Zimbabwean immigrants in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1950s
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com, 2006)
This article is a modest sketch of
the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers
in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise ...
Gaborone Muslim Community: A Vignette into their lives
(Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch, http://academic.sun.ac.za/tsv/Scriptura/scriptura.htm, 2006)
Southern Africa's Muslim minorities have been growing at a steady pace through procreation, conversion and migration. These Muslim communities have rooted and embedded themselves onto the Southern African soil and have ...