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National Institutions:
Representations in Foreign
Countries:
- Embassy
of Botswana in Belgium -
169 Avenue de Tervuren - B-1150 Brussels - Tel: (2) 735 070 -
Fax: (2) 735 6318 - Tlx: 22849
- Embassy
of Botswana in UK - 6
Stratford Place - London- W1N 9AE - Tel: (0171) 499 31 - Fax:
(0171) 495 8595 - Tlx: 262897
- Embassy of Botswana in USA
- 3400 International
Drive, NW, Suite 7M, Intelsat Building Washington DC 20008
Telephone: (202) 244-4990 Fax: (202) 244-4164
- Embassy of Botswana in China
- 1-8-1/2, Ta Yuang Office Building, Beijing Republic of
China
Tel: 0086 143 2571
- Botswana High Commission
Namibia - P.O. Box 20359, Windhoek, Namibia Tel: 221 942
Fax: 2646 136 034 Telex: 908894
- Botswana Embassy to European
Communities - 169 Avenue De Tervuren, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 32273 5611 012 070 Fax: 32273 56318 Telex: 22849
- Botswana Embassy in Sweden
- Drottnigatan 56, P.O. Box 420, 0128 Stockholm Sweden
Tel: 4687 230 035 Fax: 4687 230 087 Telex: 11684
- Botswana Permanent Mission to
the United Nations - 103 East 37th Street, New York, NY
10016
- Botswana High Commission
Zambia - P.O. Box 31510, Lusaka, Zambia Tel: 26012
50019/250555 Fax: 26012 53895 Telex: 902 41710
- Botswana High Commission
Zimbabwe - 22 Philip Avenue, P.O. 563, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: 2634 72 9551 Fax: 2634 70 0459
- Botswana Investment Promotion
in Hong Kong - 4/F Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre,
11 Duddell Street Central Hong Kong Tel: 00882 53 485
Botswana City Maps
- Africa
Inter Mennonite Mission
"Organized as the Congo
Inland Mission in 1912, AIMM currently has missionaries in six
areas of Africa working among various ethnic and language groups."
Based in Elkhart, Indiana. Describes their work in Botswana,
Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire), Lesotho,
Senegal, South Africa. Has full text articles from their journal,
Messenger.
- African
Internet Connectivity- Mike Jensen
Current information on internet
service providers, telecommunications, networking in Botswana.
Excellent source maintained by Mike Jensen.
African
Safari Photo - Botswana wild fauna photo.
Ananzi
Search Engine
Search engine which searches only
South African web sites. Enter a search query or you can also use
their subject catalogue. By IS-Commercial of The Internet Solution
Group.
Botsnet
Internet service provider, owned
by the government Botswana Telecommunications Corp. Has a
directory of restaurants, events, newspapers, discussion forum,
column in Setswana, kids
site. The site sets cookies.
Botswana
Official site of the Government.
The Ministries, daily
news, business/investment, economic, history, and tourism
information.
Botswana
- Budget Speech 1998
Full text of the 1998 Budget
speech by the Vice President and Minister of Finance and
Development Planning, F. G. Mogae, delivered Feb. 9, 1998.
Both are on the site of the Botswana
Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA).
Botswana
Economic Policy Documents
The full text of government
documents such as the Budgets for 1999, 1998, the Budget Review
(in Adobe .pdf format, from Stockbrokers Botswana Ltd. Feb. 1998).
Hosted on the site of the Botswana Institute for Development
Policy Analysis.
Botswana
Election 1999
Official government site. Detailed
results by constituency, polling district.
Botswana
Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)
"An autonomous non
governmental research institute..." Its areas of interest are
development policy analysis and capacity building. links
to Botswana sites, etc.
Botswana
Online
Information for business and
travel. Uses the Ananzi search engine for its news service. From
Africa Informatrix Ltd.
Botswana
Page
Page by Vishvas Q. Sethi, a
student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Sources
of information are not given. Has photos of Botswana.
Botswana
Society (Gaborone)
Lists their publications including
Botswana Notes and Records.
Botswana
Stock Exchange
Information on the Botswana stock
exchange from MBendi Information Services, a South African
consulting group. Has a country
profile and information on industries
Botswana
Telecommunications Corporation
The government telecommunications
company. Has a business directory database and a residential
directory, tariffs for services, statistics, Y2K readiness,
etc.
Botswanacraft
Marketing (Gaborone, Botswana)
Wholesale and export of crafts
from Botswana produced in rural handicraft industries. Sells
beautiful hand made baskets and Bushman or San crafts. Has a
basket exhibition, information on the crafters. Also sells
wildlife videos, San music cassettes, wood and wire push toys
including wire bicycles.
British
Columbia Govt. - Commonwealth Pages
General information on Botswana
prepared for the 1994 Commonwealth Games, includes the national
anthem.
Braby's
Directories Southern Africa
Business directories for South
Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Seychelles, Botswana, Mauritius,
Angola. Also has medical directories.
Duncombe,
Richard and Richard Heeks - "Information, ICTs and Small
Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana"
"summarises interim findings
from a research project in Botswana about the information systems
and information needs of small enterprises. It also presents
recommendations on ICT use in small enterprises." Includes an
educators' guide to student questions. (Univ. of Manchester.
Institute for Development Policy and Management.
Conservation International- Botswana
- Threats: Commercial development, exploitation of
resources, population growth.
Electronic
School Book - Southern Africa
Energy
and Botswana
EnviroLink
A non-profit on-line environmental
information resource. Has an e-magazine, One
World (based in Austin, Texas) with articles on the Kalahari
Desert (excerpts from The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall
Thomas).
Essick,
Peter
10 photographs of Botswana, no
captions, by Peter Essick. Located on the site of photo agency,
Aurora & Quanta Productions. The agency, founded by Jose Azel
and Robert Caputo, sells photographs of international
photojournalists.
Francistown
News & Reviews (Francistown, Botswana)
Has classified ads (accommodations,
cars, etc.), sports scores, Footrot
Flats which are cartoons.
Gabriel,
Miles - Botswana's Livestock Sector and its Impacts on the
Environment
Gabriel's B.Sc. project for the
University of Sunderland, School of Environment. 97 pages in MS
Word format, 1995.
Hyatt,
Stanley Portal - "The Northward Trek" (London : A.
Melrose, 1909)
The full text of Hyatt's 309 page
book "The northward trek." Includes some of the book's
photographs, two maps (1888, 1890). Hyatt favored a British South
Africa. Discusses Bechuanaland, attitudes towards Africans,
missionaries, John Mackenzie, Cecil Rhodes, Lobengula, Umzilakazi,
Khama, Portugal, Mozambique, Gungunhana, etc.
Info
Botswana Internet Services (IBIS)
Internet service provider and web
site design and hosting. Has links to many Botswana
web sites.
Kalahari
Conservation Society - This NGO aims to promote knowledge of
Botswana's rich wildlife and its environment through education and
publicity, to encourage and in some cases finance research into
issues affecting these resources and their conservation, to
promote and support policies of conservation towards wildlife and
its habitat.
International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) - Report on Botswana
from the Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights
(1999)
In English, French, Spanish. Use
the Search box to locate additional Botswana information.
Internet
Service Providers - Mike Jensen
Excellent site on the internet and
telecommunications in Botswana.
Has
internet connectivity maps and links to related web sites.
Mega
Internet
Botswana internet service provider.
Miss
Universe
Mpule Kwelagobe from Botswana is
Miss Universe of 1999.
National
Geographic - In Search of Human Origins
A team from the U.S., Botswana,
and South Africa hunt for fossils in Botswana, Sept.-Oct. 1998.
How to interpret findings, why is Africa a hotspot for hominid
development, classroom ideas for K-12, links to related sites.
Network
Startup Resource Center
Information on the internet and
networking in Botswana.
Has full text documents providing a history of the internet in
Botswana.
Official
SADC Trade, Industry & Investment Review 1999
Country profiles on Botswana.
Covers the economy, environment, labor, culture, tourism, trade
fairs. Published by Southern African Marketing Company Ltd (Gaborone,
Botswana) in assoc. with the SADC Secretariat.
Okacom.
Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission
"...an initiative of the
three Okavango River Basin states, Angola, Botswana and Namibia.
The Commission has the functions of advising the governments on
the sustainable development of the basin and of co-ordinating
investigations and research activities." Mainly photographs.
Okavango
National Geographic site, with an
unfortunate sub-title, on animals of the Okavango region, designed
for K-12. Slow-loading pages. Useful links to related wildlife
sites.
Okavango
Wildlife Society
A South African organization
concerned with the conservation of the Okavango Delta including
the Kalahari Desert and Chobe National Park. Has information on
its campaign
to protect the Delta, a brief annotated bibliography, and
extensive links to other African
wildlife web sites.
Reservations
Hotline Online - Southern Africa
A professional conference
organizer covering South Africa, also Botswana,
Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe. Have their own travel agency.
Listing of conference venues (including hotels, resorts) giving
no. of accomodations, seating capacity, floor dimensions, lighting,
etc. Includes photographs. Designed for the business customer.
Safari
Bound
London-based safari company
operating photographic and adventure safaris in Zimbabwe and
Botswana. Has a clickable map with information on the camps and
lodges available plus where to go, what to bring, health, costs.
Standard
Bank of South Africa
Has country
profiles for Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia,
Zimbabwe. Publishes a Foreign
Trade Bulletin (for $85 per yr.). Has a report by bank staff
members, in .zip form (217K in Word) "Guide
to Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa".
Stockbrokers
Botswana
Has some full text documents in
Adobe .pdf format or MS Word format.
Titlestad,
Michael, "Seeing Things Differently, Four Years of Teaching
English in Botswana."
From scrutiny 2, Issues in english
studies in southern africa (1996, V. 1, No. 1/2) a journal from
the Department of English, Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria.
Travel Sites
Bushtracks
African Expeditions, Inc.
Based in Menlo Park, California offers big game and cultural
safaris to Southern and East Africa. Has custom-designed tours and
scheduled tours to Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe by private
train and air (DC4).
Cape
to Cairo: African Business and Adventure Travel
Operated by Barbara Levedahl, a South African living in
Washington, D.C. Offers personalized, specialized trips to
Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Arranges
business conferences. Has some travel stories.
Travel
Southern Africa - The complete travel guide.
Mainly information for South Africa but includes Botswana.
Its Southern African Travel News has excerpts from Business Day
newspaper on the tourism industry. Information for game parks,
climate, public holidays, distances between major cities, a
glossary of, mainly, Afrikaans common words, hotels ( and a
discount offer for a hotel booked thru the internet).
United
Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, UNICRI
Has the full text of Crime
in Southern Africa: Towards the Year 2000, Summary Proceedings
of a Regional Training Workshop, (Issues and Report, No. 7/8,
1997, 29 pp. Most participants were from Botswana.
United
Nations. ReliefWeb
You'll have to use the sites
Search facility and put in Botswana to locate information. Managed
by the UN Dept. of Humanitarian Affairs.
U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members
- Botswana
Provides a list of the President,
Cabinet members, the Governor of the Central Bank, the country's
Ambassador to the U.S., and its U.N. Representative.
U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook
Information on geography, people,
government, economy, transportation, communication, defense.
U.S. Department of State. Report
on Human Rights Practices - Botswana.
2000
Report, 1999
Report, 1998
Report, 1997
Report, 1996
Report
1993-1995
Reports:
University
of Botswana
Includes the staff
directory, the UB Newsletter.http://www.ub.bw
- Univ.
of Pennsylvania Botswana Page
- U.S. C.I.A maps, embassies, travel,
etc. for each African country. Created by Julie Sisskind, now
maintained by Ali Dinar. UPenn's vast African studies web site has
a keyword
search engine.
U.S. C.I.A maps, embassies, travel,
etc. for each African country. Created by Julie Sisskind, now
maintained by Ali Dinar. UPenn's vast African studies web site has
a keyword
search engine.
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