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The Khoisan in Botswana - Can multicultural discourses redeem them?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis) www.routledge.com, 2010)
The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa.
Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As
ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ...
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 ...
Diffusing information technology in Botswana: a framework for vision 2016
(Sage Publications, www.sagepub.com, 2001)
Presents the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out to determine the scope of IT diffusion in Botswana in the context of the National Vision 2016. The study was aimed at establishing the extent of IT use in the ...
The reading behavior of junior secondary students during school holidays in Botswana
(International Reading Association, www.reading.org/, 2011)
Reports of the poor reading culture of Batswana appear periodically in the
popular media, especially the newspapers (see Baputaki, 2006; Hosia, 2007;
Seboni & Swartland, 2009). These impressionistic reports speak of an ...
Leveraging public libraries and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver information services for development in Botswana: towards the information society
(2013-05-14)
This paper outlines the initiatives the Government of Botswana has put in place with the aim to provide information access even to the most undeserved. The premise of the paper though, will be that in as much as there are ...
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 ...
Gender mainstreaming at the University of Botswana: a content analysis of UB newsletter
(University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw, 2007)
The state of Botswana and the University of Botswana have made avowed commitments to gender equity. The former has done so by signing up for and implementing various protocols aimed at enforcing gender justice and the ...
The impact of Game Reserve policy on the river BaSarwa/Bushmen of Botswana
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy
on Bugakhwe, “River BaSarwa” (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of
local community ownership and its ...
The functional distribution of Setswana and English in Botswana
(Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications, http://www.multilingual matters.com, 2003)
In multilingual societies such as Botswana, language use is an extremely complex matter, further compounded by the fact that the languages involved are themselves
dynamic phenomena that often elude the planned outcomes ...