Development In Botswana Essay

This is a paper about the development in Botswana. Thus it is going to start by looking at the country’s history. The countries history will bring a better view or better understanding of the countries development process taken. However it is also going to talk about the development policies that were enforced by the colonial government. Contradicting with the colonial rule, the paper will also look at the policies that were enforced or came with the independence government.

Botswana is a landlocked country found in South Africa. A landlocked country is a country which does not have its own coastal line. It depends on the near countries for the coastal line use. Saugestad (2001) argues that being a landlocked country brings only devastation to the country. Thus being a landlocked country is a disadvantage as the country will not have less access to the coastline market. Coastlines are believed to be one of the country’s economic boosters. It is argued that a coastal country serves the neighbouring country as they have insufficient connection in terms of world trade. Thus landlocked countries contribute to the coastal development of the other country.

Along these lines Botswana is a country which has an amusing population development history. At first the country was dwelled by the San or the Basarwa and Khoi. It is argued that these groups originated in in the north of Africa. Around the 300A.D (After Death of Christ) they migrated to the south, where they found the Bantu groups. The groups were chased from the south by the Bantu groups as they believe that they were a threat to their livestock. The san people were the native Botswana people. In 1961 the country experienced colonialism from Britain. Thus the colonies decided to...

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...sult the school enrolment increased as the citizens saw the vitality of education. Thus people engaged themselves more into education. Such development may be seen as one of the first step that the democratic government made.

The development of the tourism industry in Botswana grew rapidly. After gaining independence the government introduced tourism to the country. The tourism industry in Botswana grew rapidly as the country had all that was needed in the tourism industry. Mbaiwa(2003) argue that the world trade organisation in 1999 stated that the nomber international arrivals increased to 429 million. During the year 1998 the world trade organisation revealed that in 1989 about 625 million people visited country. Such increase in the tourism industry did not only contribute to the countries development. It also contributed to the gross domestic production.