Celebrating birthdays on Botswana Day

It is not uncommon for some people born on this day to even organise combined parties for exceptional celebrations.  Some radio stations are even known to dedicate some airtime to these lucky people born on Botswana Day.  New born babies born on this day often receive congratulatory gifts.  Even the naming of such children often denotes that they were born on Independence Day.

Most of them have names like Boipuso, a Setswana word for independence, and for parents with female children Mma-Botswana is usually the preferred name, it means Miss-Botswana.