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unusual facts about Moremi, Botswana



102 Squadron SAAF

The squadron area of responsibility is from north of Polokwane (Pietersburg) to the Limpopo River and is used for reconnaissance flights along the South African and Zimbabwe and Botswana borders.

1833 in South Africa

David Hume, explorer and big-game hunter, becomes the first European to enter the country of the Bamangwato (Botswana)

Afromaimetsha

Afromaimetsha robusta is an extinct species of wasp which existed in Botswana during the late Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Afromaimetsha.

Alvarion

In February 2009, Alvarion announced that it was hired by Orange Botswana for WiMAX deployment, initially to cover Botswana’s two largest cities Gaborone and Francistown.

Ancylobothrys capensis

The species is common and occurs in rocky areas, particularly on quartzites throughout KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Botswana.

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

The reigning world junior champion Nigel Amos finished second in 1:41.73, establishing a new world junior record and Botswanan national record.

Balete people

Balete are settled in Southern Botswana villages that include Ramotswa, Gabane, Otse and Mogobane.

Balopi Commission

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Constitution of Botswana, also known as the Balopi Commission after the chairman of the commission Patrick Balopi, is a Botswana commission of inquiry set up on 28 July 2000 in response to perceived tribal inequality between the dominant Batswana and the smaller minority tribes such as the Wayeyi.

Bangwaketse

Mpule Kwelagobe - is a Motswana Political Economist, Philanthropist, model and beauty queen from Gaborone, Botswana who was crowned Miss Universe in May 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Bessie Head

Head settled in Serowe, the largest of Botswana's "villages" (i.e. traditional settlements as opposed to settler towns).

Blouberg Nature Reserve

Although it is an ideal stop over for the Tuli Block in Botswana, the Mapungubwe National Park in Zimbabwe or the northern part of Kruger Park, the reserve is worth a proper visit even by itself.

Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi

Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi (born 14 September 1927) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, from 1981 until 2009.

Cape Province

It was by far the largest of South Africa's four provinces, as it contained regions it had previously annexed, such as British Bechuanaland (not to be confused with the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana), Griqualand East (the area around Kokstad) and Griqualand West (area around Kimberley).

Chelypus

Chelypus barberi Purcell 1902 (=Chelypus macronyx Hewitt 1919) - Northern Cape, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe and Zambia - "On some South African Arachnida belonging to the orders of Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Solifugae".

hirsti Hewitt 1915 (=Chelypus kalaharicus Lawrence, 1949)(=Chelypus wuehlischi Roewer 1941) - Northern Cape, Gobabis, Namibia and Botswana

Click consonant

The second point of transfer was near the Caprivi Strip and the Okavango River where, apparently, the Yeyi language borrowed the clicks from a West Kalihari Khoe language; a separate development lead to a smaller click inventory in the neighboring Mbukushu, Kwangali, Gciriku, Kuhane, and Fwe languages in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia.

Coenraad de Buys

He settled above the tsetse-fly and malarial belt in the Tswapong Hills east of Palapye, in present day eastern Botswana.

Ducere Foundation

There are six Ducere-sponsored schools across Botswana, in Gaborone, Kang and Kasane.

European Union Baroque Orchestra

Outside of Europe, as well as tours to Japan, USA and South Africa, EUBO has played in less favoured parts of the world as Ramallah and the Gaza Strip, Botswana, Soweto and others.

Helmeted Guineafowl

N. m. papillosus (Reichenow, 1894) - Damara Helmeted Guineafowl - southern Angola to Botswana and Namibia

International Law Enforcement Academy

Presently, there are five ILEAs located around the world: ILEA Budapest in Hungary, ILEA Bangkok in Thailand, ILEA Gaborone in Botswana, ILEA Roswell in New Mexico, USA, and ILEA San Salvador in El Salvador.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

JOGMEC's Geological Remote Satellite Sensing Centre in Lobatse, Botswana was created in partnership with the southern African nation's Department of Geological Survey in July 2008.

Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality

It borders on the Kgalagadi District of the Republic of Botswana to the north, Moshaweng Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province to the south-west, Greater Taung Local Municipality to the south, Naledi Local Municipality to the south-east, and Ratlou Local Municipality to the east.

Keoagetse Radipotsane

Keoagetse Radipotsane (born September 16, 1982 in Botswana) is a Motswana football midfielder currently playing for Notwane FC.

Khwai

The villagers originally settled into what is now a part of Moremi Game Reserve but were forcibly removed by the Government of Botswana.

Kondo Arimiyao

On his second appearance, he scored the only goal of the game against Botswana in September 2011 in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification game.

Lejwana, Botswana

Lejwana, Botswana is a small village in the Republic of Botswana in Africa.

Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education

In addition to South African undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate future science and mathematics teachers, would-be teachers and teacher educators come from Southern African Development Community (SADC) member nations such as Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi', Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and other African countries.

Mmamabula

Mmamabula is a planned coal mine and coal-fired power station to the east of the main road and rail corridor in Botswana between Gaborone and Francistown and south of the Serorome River.

Mpandamatenga

Pandamatenga is a border post and settlement in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, adjacent to the Pandamatenga area in Botswana.

Nia Künzer

She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer (her first name being Swahili for "aim" or "intention"), where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization.

Notwane River

It flows roughly northeastwards past the most densely populated area of Botswana, passing east of Lobatse and close to Gaborone.

Nǁng language

As of 2007, fewer than ten are still alive in South Africa, and a few more in Botswana; none live with another speaker, and their daily languages are Khoekhoe and Tswana, respectively.

Palapye

Located here is the Morupule Colliery coal mine, which supplies Morupule Power Station, Botswana's principal domestic source of electricity.

Persecution of Traditional African Religion

In Kwara State, Nigeria, Muslims demanded the removal of the shrine of Moremi, located at the palace of a king to recall this brave and altruistic Yoruba princess, because it was close to the mosque, despite the fact that the mosque was built 100 years after the shrine.

Ramatlabama

It is also the location where the Cape TownBulawayo railway line enters Botswana; north of Ramatlabama the railway is the main line of Botswana Railways, while to the south it is part of the network of Transnet Freight Rail.

Ronald Baipidi

Baipidi has been the president of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions, which is the largest trade union in Botswana, since 1997.

Sekele language

A variety currently being investigated is Mangetti Dune !Kung, spoken by a resettled diaspora community of 500–1000 in Namibia and South Africa in the settlements of Mangetti Dune and Omtaku (Omatako?), east of Grootfontein, Namibia, halfway to the Botswana border; and in Schmidtsdrif, west of Kimberly, South Africa.

Ted Lewin

Lewin and his wife Betsy Lewin drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books.

Thomas Tlou

Tlou was the first Motswana (Botswana citizen) to be vice-chancellor of the University of Botswana, serving from 1985 to 1998.

Trans-Kalahari Corridor

The Trans-Kalahari Corridor is a paved highway corridor that provides a direct route from Walvis Bay and Windhoek in central Namibia, through Botswana, to Johannesburg and Pretoria in Gauteng province in South Africa.

Transport in Zambia

Livingstone-Sesheke Road — Livingstone-Mambova (-BOTSWANA)-Sesheke-NAMIBIA Road / Kazungula Ferry (Zambezi, planned to be replaced by a bridge) to Botswana, Katima Mulilo Bridge (Zambezi) to Namibia.

Tshekedi Khama

Bitterness continued until 1956 when Seretse Khama renounced his right to power and returned with his wife to Botswana to serve as a minor official.

University of Botswana and Swaziland

The University of Botswana and Swaziland was the predecessor of the Universities of Botswana and Swaziland.

Valentine Tsamma Seane

Valentine Tsamma Seane (born 2 November 1966) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaborone at the Christ the King Cathedral in Gaborone, Botswana.

ǂ’Amkoe language

Sàsí dialect is spoken in eastern Botswana in and around Bodungwane, Dibeti, Mokganene, Poloka, and Lethajwe.


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