Let Them Come with Rain

A bone-dry land the size of France, with a population of no more than 600,000: that is Botswana -land locked in southern Africa, newly independent, beginning the painful early steps toward modern nationhood. Much of Botswana. is the Kalahari Desert, where David Livingstone once established a mission station and brought the first western schools to an isolated and bucolic people. Today Botswana’s new leaders look to their vast mineral resources from which to fashion a key to the industrial future its people want.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / International Zone
• Video Length: 00:27:30
• Production Date: 1 January 1969
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: DESERTIFICATION; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY
• Geographic Subject: BOTSWANA
• MAMS Id: 2646041
• Parent Id: 837701

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