Botswanas National Monuments and Protected Areas

Botswana has over 2,500 National Monument sites, of which more than 100 have been gazetted. The National Monuments and Relics Act of 2001 ensures that the sites are adequately protected; most are free to visit, and some have full time guides.

Continuing the series of articles, MIKE and JEREMY BROOK cover the Bathoen Dam Bird Sanctuary, Pharing Gorge and Jwana Game Park, all within a two-hour drive from Gaborone, and situated near each other, south-west of the Capital.

Bathoen Dam Bird Sanctuary

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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