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AS part of its ongoing efforts to resettle, integrate and create economic opportunities for hundreds of returning Batswana of Namibian descent, the Namibian government has to date spent close to N$59 million to acquire five farms for their relocation.
The returnees are primarily the descendants of the Ovaherero, Ovambanderu and Nama tribes, who fought and perished in the war of resistance against German colonial troops between 1904 and 1908.
The few survivors of that
gruesome war ended up in
Botswana, and today, their descendants continue to show willingness to return in their hundreds to their motherland, Namibia. Presently, thousands of these descendants are found in various villages and settlements across Botswana, particularly in Ghanzi, Tsau, Maun, Semboyo, Komana and Chanoga.
22/04/2024
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“ Towards the Sun “ // Solly Levi
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MaRock, Botswana leather cowboy by Oliver Hadlee for i-D Magazine Winter 2022
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Hellbangers
Pep Bonet
Texts Pep Bonet and Steffan Chirazi, foreword by Rob Halford
Hannibal Books, Furnes 2021, 128 pages, 17x22 cm, hardcover with coloured edging, ISBN 978 916388 788 5
euro 60,00
The Hellbangers are the enfants terribles of a sleepy, diamonds rich country. Photographer Pep Bonet (1974, Mallorca) has been following Overthrust, a heavy metal band from Botswana, Africa, and shows us a growing, exciting and thoroughly organic heavy metal community. Ten years ago, one group existed. Today there are more than ten and their fans are growing every year. The inhabitants of Botswana portrayed in this book are tattood, wear loudly and proudly leather jackets, leather trousers and play heavydeath metal music. Imagine the DIY ingenuity of their costume creation involving harvested animal skulls and other natural elements. With names like Demon and Gunsmoke, it would be easy though to think they are thugs, but We try to be exemples. Rock is awild thing, but also something for the heart, says Gunsmoke, the heavy metal head. Here too, the lyrics of the songs are very critical towards societies, just like their western peers. Metal in Botswana is rebellious movement against authorities. This is the story of what looks at first to be an unlikely union, yet one which powerfully illustrates how music, how heavy metal music, has become a positively unifying force in an unlikely part of the world.
28/12/23
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Tswana women, Botswana, by msstartino
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The female lions of the Okavango Delta in Botswana epitomize all of the agility, stealth, and intuitive cooperation that define a lioness-led hunt. Male lions get much of the limelight, but the lionesses are the true heart of the pride-and they perform the bulk of the demanding work required to sustain it. The crimson "war paint" on this lioness is a visceral reminder of how closely her existence is tied to the cycle of life and death.
Lioness after the hunt
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Image and words by Beverly Joubert
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Miss Botswana
www.yourafricanation1.com
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Lions in Botswana's Okavango Delta
Photographed by Beverly Joubert
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"I see you.", Okavango Delta, Botswana
Photographer: Tomasz Szpila
Nature TTL Photographer of the Year
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Cape eland Tragelaphus oryx oryx
Observed by faerout, CC BY-NC
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Monica Tabengwa
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: N/A
Ethnicity: Botswana (Motswana)
Occupation: Lawyer, researcher, activist
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“The country now joins the growing list of African countries that have decriminalised or legalised same-sex relationships, including Angola, Botswana, Seychelles and Mozambique.”
Mauritius has reversed a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations
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