Talk:Seretse Khama/Archive 1

Archive 1

Refugees

In 1978 Khama was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award for assisting refugees. I assume this is in reference to people escaping the war in Rhodesia: I know unofficially that the British Council were instrumental in funnelling refugees through Botswana, often to the UK where they were then offered further/higher education. Be nice to track something down on this, as it had a huge positive impact on Zimbabwe's supply of professionals (teachers, engineers, healthcare professionals...) after independence, as people returned from abroad. JackyR | Talk 21:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Agressive

"...trapped between the aggressive white minority governments of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, most observers believed that Botswana would have little choice but to become a satellite state to one or the other.[citation needed]..." You'd have to prove that any of these governments was aggressive toward peaceful neighbours at all. --41.208.223.213 (talk) 20:47, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Nationality

I don't want to sound dumb, and I realize there are similar words like governor/gubernatorial, etc. But on the page under Nationality you have "Motswana". Is this really what it is called (could be) or just a mistype of "Botswana"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bistritapcv2 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

• "Motswana" is the singular form of Botswana - that is, a Tswana person. This is a common prefixing practice involving Bantu language groups across Central Africa. Same works for Muluba/Baluba for the Luba people of the Congo. -Indy beetle (talk) 16:31, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

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