Air Botswana

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One day someone will write a history of Air Botswana or, more correctly, a history of the country’s national air carrier. When that happens, the cutting from a British newspaper, which is reproduced here, should prove helpful.

Most of the information provided is, whilst of interest, of little relevance to us here. The value lies in the last sentence which states that Gibson, in the 1960s, founded first the Bechuanaland National Airways and then the Botswana National Airways. 

In order to establish some degree of validity for that claim, it was necessary for me to reproduce the entire obituary. To do so without being able to provide the basic information about the obituary such as the name of the newspaper (the Telegraph, I suspect) and the date, would have been too thin to be taken seriously.

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