Some argue that the openness of the country's political system has been a significant factor in Botswana's stability and economic growth.

As a principal architect of Botswana's steady economic and infastructural growth between 1966 and 1980, Masire earned a reputation as a highly competent technocrat.

The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.

South African film-maker Richard Wicksteed has produced a number of documentaries on San / Bushman culture, history and present situation ; these include " In God's Places / Iindawo ZikaThixo " ( 1995 ) on the Bushman cultural legacy in the southern Drakensberg ; " Death of a Bushman " ( 2002 ) on the murder of Bushman tracker Optel Rooi by South African police ; " The Will To Survive " ( 2009 ) which covers the history and situation of Bushman communities in southern Africa today ; and " My Land is My Dignity " ( 2009 ) on the San's epic land rights struggle in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies ' Opera House, for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version ofMacbeth set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.

Serowe has a rich history in Botswana ; it being the capital for the Bamangwato people in the early part of the 20th century and for being the birthplace of many of Botswana's Presidents.

After its poor performance in the 2004 general elections the party has since joined forces with Botswana's third largest party Botswana Congress party.

There have been twelve censuses in Botswana's history.

Palapye lies on the main A1 Highway, which connects Botswana's two major cities, Gaborone and Francistown.

He was a judge on Botswana's Court of Appeal from 1985 to 1993.

* George Bizos becomes a judge on Botswana's Court of Appeal

Francistown is located on Botswana's main air and road transport routes ; mining and agriculture are important.

Diamond mining activities have fueled much of the growth in Botswana's economy, allowing it to grow from one of the poorest countries in the world when it became independent in 1966 to a " middle income " nation, with $ 9, 200 per capita income in 2004.

Limpopo Province shares international borders with districts and provinces of three countries: Botswana's Central and Kgatleng districts to the west and north-west respectively, Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South and Masvingo provinces to the north and northeast respectively, and Mozambique's Gaza Province to the east.

From being a mere stop-over, Palapye is rapidly developing to one of Botswana's main financial, residential and educational hubs.

Botswana's lowest elevation point is at the junction of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers, at a height of.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

Botswana's cabinet is headed by the President, who is also head of government.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

Botswana's national television broadcaster, BTV, also provides an un-edited broadcast of MSNBC ( including advertisements ) after their scheduled programming each evening.

Certain protected areas exist that shelter large and exceptionally visible populations of lions, hyenas, leopards and cheetahs, such as Botswana's Chobe, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Tanzania's Serengeti.

He would remain Botswana's President until his death from pancreatic cancer in 1980.

The Three Dikgosi Monument features Khama III along with two other kgosi for their work in establishing Botswana's independence.

Botswana's Vision 2016 states: Botho defines a process for earning respect by first giving it, and to gain empowerment by empowering others.

In April 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council ( UNHRC ) criticised Botswana's government for not allowing certain Bushmen to return.

The two zebras are present since zebras are an important part of Botswana's wildlife.

Noted for its wildlife, the Okavango area contains Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve.

Serowe ( population approximately 60, 000 ) is a town in Botswana's Central District and is a trade and commerce centre.

It was famed as Botswana's largest village after Molepolole.

It is also the birthplace of Seretse Khama, Botswana's first President, and the traditional center of the Bamangwato tribe.

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

After a decade of impressive growth rates, Chile began to experience a moderate economic downturn in 1999, brought on by unfavorable global economic conditions related to the Asian financial crisis, which began in 1997.

There were impressive indicators of economic growth between 1972 and 1979: the government budget expanded some 540 percent, whereas exports as well as per capita income increased a full 500 percent.

In 1999, exports accounted for 40 % of GDP, an impressive performance in the midst of the economic crisis which hit other countries in Asia.

The region of Campinas, like most of the interior of the state of São Paulo, is one of the most prosperous in Brazil, with an impressive economic output.

This impressive and sustained economic performance was driven by the export of agricultural goods.

The growth of the mobile telephone market since the beginning of the economic recovery in 2003 has been impressive, with new customers now preferring a comparatively cheap cellular phone to land line household service.

Even so, the value of these goals and of the coordination of an entire economy's development of central planning was seemingly impressive: a reported 12 % to 13 % rate of annual industrial growth attained in the Soviet Union during the 1930s has few parallels in the economic history of other countries.

The magazine's influence is based on two pillars ; firstly the moral authority established by investigative journalism since the early years and proven alive by several impressive scoops during the 1980s ; secondly the economic power of the prolific Spiegel publishing house.

Besides that, the overseas territories were also displaying impressive economic growth and development rates from the 1920s onwards.

With the change of occupation policy, most significantly thanks to the currency reform of 1948, Germany eventually made an impressive recovery, later known as the Wirtschaftswunder (" economic miracle ").

In the following period of successful economic growth, he became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on the grounds of impressive electoral results of his party.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pegaso kept pace with the impressive economic development of Spain ( the so-called " Spanish miracle "), and tens of thousands of Pegaso trucks and busses ran on Spanish roads and through Spanish cities and, more important, crossed borders in TIR sealed-container traffic to link the Spanish economy with the European Economic Community.

As such, it became one of the European centres of economic liberalism and supporters of laissez-faire, attracting new enterprises and immigrants, which resulted in impressive growth of the city.

Both Quataert and Palairet ’ s work suggest that in the second quarter of the 19th century there were impressive economic advances in the Ottoman Empire contradicting Wallerstein and Kasaba ’ s claim that " in the long run, the effects of incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy proved to be catastrophic for manufacturing in the Ottoman realms as a whole.

Apart from this, the advent of globalisation and economic development since the 90s, has spawned an impressive collection of modern IT campuses and skyscrapers, and as economic reform accelerates, metropolitan areas are gaining futuristic skylines.

It can also be a generic term for a major city that dominates the economic activities of a large region and which also builds impressive public and private structures and cultural institutions, even if it possesses a democratic government within the framework of a larger republic ( for example, as described in the book Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray Brechin ).

The impressive economic growth that characterized Helou's presidency was marred by the Intra Bank crisis of 1966 and Lebanon's increasing inability to avoid involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

His list of political achievements is also one of the most impressive, overseeing one of the longest periods of economic expansion in Danish history.

At the end of the 1950s an impressive economic growth was termed " Economic Miracle ", a term that is still recognized in Italian politics ( Silvio Berlusconi won the 1994 elections promising a new " Miracle ").

An impressive shipbuilding industry also contributed to their economic dominance through more exports to other countries.

: For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917 – 1930, which argues that ' Soviet economic development for 1917 – 1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid ' ( p. 283 ), and that ' at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.