Given their country’s proximity to the “elephant” South Africa and the never-ending threat of the struggle for liberation spilling over the border, I was amazed at how the people of Botswana – what? not even 2 million people – coped and maintained their own culture and way of life as a free and independent nation. Times were tough with the bombings and raids from next door.
As well as being local development workers, CUSO people in Botswana were on a journey of “Solidarity,” for they experienced the lives of their Batswana comrades, and got to know the refugees and members of liberation movements.
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June 2019
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