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Up to the present, springbok are hunted as game throughout Namibia, Botswana and South Africa because of their beautiful coats, and because they are very common and easy to support on farms with very low rainfall, which means they are cheap to hunt, as well.

The South African nurses had to be " smuggled " out of SA into Botswana and from there they flew to Tanzania.

* African church leader, Archbishop Bernard Malango, states that the leaders of 600, 000 Anglicans in Malawi, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe informed him they would could cut ties with the United States organization unless the appointment of an openly gay bishop is overturned.

Before long, in both Botswana and Namibia, they found their territory drastically reduced.

On 27 January 2011, the Bushmen won an appeal against the Government in the Botswana High Court after they were initially prohibited from accessing drinking water inside the Reserve through bore holes.

Bakoena, or Bakwena, is one of the main Sotho-Tswana clans, they are found in three countries namely South Africa, Lesotho & Botswana.

The antipodes of South Africa and Zimbabwe are in the North Pacific Ocean, with Botswana antipodal to Hawaii, though as Southern Hemisphere ex-British colonies, they are sometimes included as antipodeans in colloquial English.

Today, they are scattered throughout India but majority of them live in the port city of Karachi in Pakistan, with significant communities in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Mauritius, Singapore, Australia and Burma.

Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake in Botswana north of the Kalahari Desert the first people to arrive or settle at Lake Ngami were the Oherero and Ovambanderu people in the early 1900s ( 1904 ) when they were attacked by Germans and settled by the shore of the lake.

Today, however, it is not considered a different species, rather regarded as only ‘ desert adapted .’ The herds in this area remain separate from other elephant herds in Namibia and only appear to have longer legs and bigger feet because they eat less than elephants living in more food abundant areas such as Etosha National Park, the Caprivi, and Chobe region in Botswana.

Troops from Botswana were supposed to join SANDF forces when they crossed the border to quell a suspected coup d ' état.

With the help of the British High Commission ( in Maseru ) and from the Government of Lesotho, they flew under United Nations passports and with one Lesotho official over South African territory, via Botswana to London where they were granted political asylum.

In Botswana, during the sixth leg of the race, the couple was criticized by fellow racers, as well as host Phil Keoghan, when they drove by the car accident of another team, brothers Brian and Greg, without stopping.

It is learned locally as a second language in Namibia, but the language is being lost in Botswana as speakers shift to Tswana, under threat of deportation if they do not speak that language.

Eventually, they were driven to Swaziland, and from there were flown to Botswana, still disguised as priests to avoid being identified by potentially pro-South African British colonial authorities ( at this time Swaziland was not independent ).

The range of the greater kudu extends from the east in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Eritrea and Kenya into the south where they are found in Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

" I made some friends down in Botswana, in Southern Africa, and they inspired this little song '.

Most Spar stores are in Europe, but they can also be found in a few countries outside of Europe, such as Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, Australia, Mauritius, China, India, Japan and Vanuatu.

From this it is believed that they stem from a people who originated from the Limpopo / Drakensburg areas of South Africa and settled in the Northern part of Botswana and the modern day Zimbabwe.

Stanley Tshosane was named as his replacement and in his first game in charge, Botswana achieved an impressive 2 – 1 win away to Mozambique to put them in a relatively strong position in their qualifying group ; on their next fixture, they took everyone by surprise by holding Côte d ' Ivoire to a 1 – 1 draw.

So popular are the fruit and nuts of the mongongo tree that they have even been described as a " staple diet " in some areas, most notably amongst the San bushmen of northern Botswana and Namibia.

Hardveld is a term applied to certain areas of rocky soils in Botswana, located mostly in the eastern part of the country.

She has been extensively involved in international research projects most recently in sub-Saharan Africa ( mostly Namibia but also Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa ), West Africa ( Mali ), Kingdom of Lo ( northern Nepal / Tibet ), Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh ( India ), Guyana ( consultancy for Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust ), and Uzbekistan.

The film was shot mostly in South Africa, though some of the film is set in neighbouring Botswana.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

The South African Cheetah Conservation Foundation has close links and assists in training and sharing program successes with other countries where cheetahs live, including Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Iran and Algeria.

Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.

African pygmies live in several ethnic groups in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ), the Republic of Congo ( ROC ), the Central African Republic, Cameroon, the Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia.

These are mainly in Botswana, but a few hundred live in Namibia.

About 17, 000 are part of the Lozi ethnic group of 556, 000 people, who also live in western Zambia, northwest Zimbabwe ( 70, 000 ), and northern Botswana ( 14, 000 ).

An ethnic Korana population ( also called Griqua ) of 10, 000 live in South Africa and perhaps Botswana, with perhaps half a dozen elderly speakers as of 2008.

The current governments of Namibia and Botswana, where the Juǀʼhoansi live, encourage permanent settlements with European style houses.

e. g. men of the Lozi tribe are called Ba-rotse, and they speak Si-lozi ; Bembas speak Chiwemba ; Tswanas live in Botswana, or as it used to be written, Bechuanaland.

In the late 19th century, hostilities broke out between the Shona inhabitants of Botswana and Ndebele tribes who were migrating into the territory from the Kalahari Desert.

The Kalahari Desert ( in Afrikaans " Dorsland ", meaning " thirst land " or " thirsty land ") is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.

The surrounding Kalahari Basin covers over extending farther into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and encroaching into parts of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Some of the areas within the Kalahari are seasonal wetlands, such as the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana.

* Top Gear, British television series, featuring an episode following a desert challenge in which Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt to drive three old cars across Botswana, including the Kalahari Desert

They are currently restricted to the Kalahari Desert, primarily in Namibia and Botswana, and to the Rift Valley in central Tanzania.

* Proposed electrified line through Kalahari Desert to Palapye in Botswana.

Their range extends from the northwestern part of South Africa through the Kalahari desert into Namibia and Botswana.

The Notwane River is a major tributary of the Limpopo, rising on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and flowing in a north-easterly direction.

West of the Bushveld is the southern basin of the Kalahari Desert, which borders Namibia and Botswana at an elevation of 600 meters to 900 meters.

** Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands ( Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe )

Archaeological evidence shows that the Khoikhoi entered South Africa from Botswana through two distinct routes – traveling west, skirting the Kalahari to the west coast, then down to the Cape, and travelling south-east out into the Highveld and then southwards to the south coast.

There is a significant linguistic difference between the northern Bushmen living between Okavango ( Botswana ) and Etosha ( Namibia ), extending into southern Angola on the one hand and the southern group in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo, who are the last remnant of the previously extensive indigenous San of South Africa.

Since the mid 1990s, the central government of Botswana has implemented a relocation policy, aiming to move the Bushmen out of their ancestral land on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve into newly created settlements.

Colopus is a genus of Gekkonidae that is found in the Kalahari desert, in the nation states of Botswana, Namibia, and the Republic of South Africa.

The dissertation, The dynamics of degassing and explosive volcanism in kimberlite pipes, involved experimental work on the gas-fluidization of particles and fieldwork at Jwaneng Diamond Mine in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and the De Beers Venetia Mine on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border.

It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of an international park shared with Botswana.

The Okavango Delta ( or Okavango Swamp ), in Botswana, is a large inland delta, formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.

Lake Makgadikgadi is an ancient lake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

File: Tockus leucomelas-Kalahari Desert, Botswana-8. jpg | Kalahari Desert, Botswana

ǂHoan is spoken in southeastern Botswana, just south of the Khutse game reserve at the southern fringe of the Kalahari desert, around the villages of Tswaane, Dutlwe, Mathibatsela, Motokwe, Khekenye, and Salajwe.

The Morokweng crater ( or Morokweng impact structure ) is an impact crater buried beneath the Kalahari Desert near the town of Morokweng in the Northwest Province of South Africa, close to the border with Botswana.