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Voicing the text: South African oral poetry and performance
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2000)
This article is about how communities living within the same borders and planet view each other and is mainly concerned about Southern Africa. The article goes further to say social groups are partly defined by our stories, ...
Covenant with death: the attitude of churches in Botswana towards the use of condoms by Christians, and its social implications
(Botswana Society, http://www.botsoc.org.bw, 2000)
This paper examines the preventative role of condoms in the fight against HIV/ AIDS. It will be argued in this paper that because of the magnitude, severity, devastation and complexity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic there is ...
Information Literacy Skills course delivery through WebCT: the University of Botswana Library experience
(University of the West Indies / http://www.uwiseismic.com, 2006)
The use of Course Management Systems such as WebCT and Blackboard for teaching information skills is not new. Many libraries in higher education institutions have designed user-education programmes using electronic media, ...
Strategic human resource development in public libraries in Botswana
(Emerald, www.emerald.com, 2005)
Purpose – The broad objective of this study was to present a model for strategic human resource management through an effective staff performance appraisal system in Botswana Public Libraries in order to enhance the provision ...
Challenges to issues of balance and representativesness in African lexicography
(http://afrilex.africanlanguages.com/homelex.html , 2006)
Modern dictionaries depend on corpora of different sizes and types for frequency listings, concordances and collocations, illustrative sentences and grammatical information. With the help of computer software, retrieving ...
“All that is fine in the human condition”: crafting words, creating Ma-Ramotswe
(Indiana University Press, www.iupress.indiana.edu, 2006)
Acclaimed Edinburgh-based author Alexander McCall Smith is a professor
of Medical Law and a prolific fiction writer. He has written over fifty books. It is, however, with the fictional character Ma-Ramotswe that his name ...
Christianity and ancestor veneration in Botswana
(Edinburgh University Press, 2003)
Argues that although Botswana is predominantly a Christian country, belief in and veneration of ancestors continues unabated. Ways in which the resilience of ancestor worship is based on the fact that it is the core of the ...
The decline in the role of chieftainship in elections
(University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit/http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2000)
This article focuses on three districts of Botswana, namely Central District, Ngwaketse District
and Kgatleng District. It argues that as a result of the role played by the institution of
chieftainship in elections, ...
Records Management and Freedom of Information: a marriage partnership
(Sage Publications http://idv.sagepub.com, 2003)
Seeks to demonstrate that successful implementation
of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation
is directly linked to effective and efficient records
keeping regimes. Where records keeping systems
are poor or ineffective, ...
The dual nature of Setswana wedding songs: expressions of peace and conflict within families
(Department of communications, Polytechnic of Namibia, 2007)
Songs are very important components in the folklore of Botswana as they accompany
almost all social activity. Every occasion in which people come together has
particular songs for the event, including work, wedding and ...