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Botswana Notes & Records

Publisher | The Botswana Society |
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Frequency | Annually |
Coverage | 1968-2008 |
Language | English |
Journal Status | Not Active |
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Lake Deception: A New Makgadikgadi Palaeolake
Northern Botswana is home to an extensive system of palaeolakes. Ntwetwe and Sua pans are the main remnants of former, much more extensive water bodies. The dry river valleys (mekgacha), for example the Okwa, Deception and Passarge, bear witness to former, much wetter times. Nevertheless it has long been recognised that these were inadequate to provide sufficient water to fill the palaeolakes. Tectonism and diversion of drainage from the Zambezi into the lake system were evoked. This study focusses on the geomorphology of the area west of, i.e. above, the Gidikwe ridge
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A Preliminary Chronology of Modem Gaborone
The compilation of this list has proved to be a surprisingly difficult exercise. Information has been unsystematically derived from archival and personal sources including my own records and, to an extent, from the internet. The many foundation stones in Gaborone proved to be an invaluable historical record. Events or developments which occurred on Gaborone's geographical periphery, are recorded in brackets.
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The Bessie Head Papers in Serowe: Recent Notes
It is now twenty years since Bessie Head died alone in Serowe, and twenty years since a resourceful and determined curator, Maria Rytter, impounded her papers and moved them to the Khama III Memorial Museum (KMM). This was done the day after Head's death, 18 April 1986, before mourners could inadvertently scatter them, and with only a quick permission from Serowe's District Commissioner to do so.
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From the Unpublished Diary of Sir Richard George Glyn, 1863 and from the (as yet) unpublished diary of Ms Patricia Glyn, 2005
Sir Richard Glyn and his younger brother, Robert Carr Glyn with a friend, Henry St. George Bentley and thirteen servants left Pieterrnaritzburg on 26 March 1863 in three wagons heading to Victoria Falls. Ms Patricia Glyn, a well-known South African radio personality, journalist and motivational speaker with a three person back-up team and no servants, left Durban in March, 2005 determined to follow as precisely as possible, on foot, heading to Victoria Falls, repeating the journey made by her ancestor, Sir Richard Glyn.
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The Mafeking Legacy
The years immediately before and after 1964, when the administrative headquarters of the Bechuanaland Protectorate moved from Mafeking in South Africa to Gaborone in Botswana, left an indelible mark on Botswana in many ways. The political, administrative and constitutional developments associated with this period have been fully descriptionbed by Sir Peter Fawcus and Alan Tilbury (in The Road to Independence), both of whom played leading roles in the transformation. This article seeks to record the contributions of a small group of public servants, all working in the Imperial Reserve in Mafeking at that time, whose informal initiatives contributed in several important respects to Botswana's subsequent success as a non-racial, democratic, egalitarian society.
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The Homestead at Crocodile Pools
The original homestead on Crocodile Pools Farm celebrated its hundredth birthday in 2002, making it one of the oldest occupied houses in Botswana. Richard Transveldt was born in Germany in 1860 and emigrated to the Cape as a young man. There, he made a fortune hunting seals and lost it farming ostriches. He finally moved to Bechuanaland setting up a sawmill in Otse. He acquired land and built a fine home in the German colonial style overlooking the Metsimaswaane River. At the age of 95, Transveldt died. About 1960, the farm was sold on auction. Empty and deserted, the grand old house decayed. The Campbells bought the house in 1971 and made the house habitable. Today, Crocodile Pools Farm has been much sub-divided, but the homestead lives on, standing on a rise looking northward towards Kgale Hill and Gaborone.
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