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Understanding the rural-urban dichotomy in Mositi Torontle's the victims and Unity Dow's far and beyon'

Rasebotsa, N.L.; Lederer, M.S. (Indiana University Press, www.iupress.indiana.edu, NaN, 2010)

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This paper examines how place is represented in two Botswana novels, Far and Beyon’ by Unity Dow and The Victims by Mositi Torontle. Conventional notions of rural as the “authentic” experience that is threatened by moral breakdown in modern towns do not fit the experiences that these two novels describe. Instead, place reveals attitudes that influence identity formation, and it does so by foregrounding the importance of human relationships. Thus, the important point is to restore and maintain a person’s sense of belonging to a family and extended community, regardless of whether those communities are rural or urban. Breakdown threatens people when they do not know to whom they belong, regardless of where they live.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10311/926

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The University in Botswana and the liberation struggle in southern Africa (1973–1980)

Mokopakgosi, B.T. (Routledge (Taylor and Francis)/www.routledge.com, NaN, 2008)

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This article documents key aspects of the role played by university students in Botswana in the liberation struggle, from the early years of the University in the mid-1960s to the year of Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. Three demonstrations by University students are analysed, and the article concludes that, contrary to the received literature, the University contributed to the liberation struggle in a meaningful way. Although students at the University continued to play a part in the liberation struggle after 1980, this period is not discussed as the liberation struggle became just one of the key agenda items in a broadened political programme that focussed on local concerns of the students such as fees, allowances, institutional governance and democratisation.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10311/551

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The use of print and electronic media in Botswana

Thapisa, A.P.N. (Sage Publications / http://www.sagepublications.com, NaN, 2003)

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One principle of Botswana’s Long Term Vision for 2016 is ‘An educated and informed nation’ through access to electronic and paper media and computer-based communication. The Department of Information and Broadcasting Services (DIBS) survey provides background data to ensure equality of access among communities. User patterns and preferences for viewing, listening and reading are determined using questionnaires, interviews, observation and focus groups. The survey technique provided for systematic random samples from city, town, urban village and village areas, reaching over 1,700 respondents. Access to radio and television, stations and times preferred, and newspaper readership are analysed by gender, age, education and income. Concludes that access in low income and rural areas should be increased by implementing more proactive education policies, equal employment and incomes policies, and the creation of rural community centres with television and radio. Radio and TV should not take a back seat to Internet access. Information should be in multiple languages, not just principal and official languages, appropriate to age and educational level of the audience, and should include programmes with useful local content created by the users themselves. The free newspaper should be more effectively distributed.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10311/753

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Voicing the text: South African oral poetry and performance

Pongweni, A. (Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, NaN, 2000)

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Abstract:	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, our myths about where we came from and by our other forms of oral literature such as proverbs, riddles, metaphors and similes.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10311/930

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Who do you say that I am?

Dube, M.W. (Sage Publications / http://www.sagepublications.com, NaN, 2007)

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Abstract:	This article is an amalgam of four talks given over several days at The Community of Women and Men in Mission Conference. The overall title 'Who do you say that I am?' covers the subjects of Jesus the Liberator, The Healer, The One Who Empowers, and The One Who Sends Us. The author explores these issues in the context of Africa and opens a very illuminating set of questions.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10311/819

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