TSWANA RELIGION. Traditional religion among the Tswana of the high veld of southern Africa centered upon the supreme being, Modimo, and ancestor spirits known as badimo. The fact that badimo is the plural form of modimo, an honorific term used to...

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38.8% for adults. This could be an exaggeration as the UN and other reputable international institutions wrongly estimated...

Highlights and Key Issues * Economic growth has slowed and become more erratic in recent years due to problems with AIDs and diversification, the latter the result of slow structural reforms. After 8.4% expansion in 2004/05, led by an 18% rise in mining,...

Only, as it turns out in this election, in three (more or less) hard-and-fast cases. THIS YEAR'S Democratic presidential race is so interesting in so many different ways. There's the exceptional length and geographical breadth of the electoral drama. Then there's the fact...