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In 1885 the territory was declared to be within the British sphere; in 1889 it was included in the sphere of the British South Africa Company, but was never administered by the company; in 1890 a Resident Commissioner was appointed, and in 1895, on the annexation of the Crown Colony of British Bechuanaland to the Cape of Good Hope, the British Government was in favour of transferring the Protectorate to the BSA Company, but the three major chiefs went to England to protest against this proposal, and agreement was reached that their country should remain a British Protectorate if they ceded a strip of land on the eastern side of the country for railway construction. This railway was built in 1896-97.
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Statistical Information. The Chief Information Officer, P.O. Box 51, Gaberones, Botswana, publishes Fact Sheet, the monthly Kutluano and Daily News.
Annual Report, 1965. HMSO, 1966.
Report of the Economic Survey Mission. HMSO, 1960.
Young, B. A., Bechuanaland. HMSO, 1966.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1968). Botswana. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270978_29
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