The Bechuana Of South Africa PDF Download

Bechuanaland, as one of the three High Commission Territories which must be an important factor in Britain's reaction to the South African problem, has acquired a new significance in world affairs. Its southern border with the Republic, its western border with the disputed territory of South West Africa, its closeness to Angola--all these make the Protectorate a key point in Africa. Other African countries are bound to look on it as the most advanced post in their hostile plans; the Republic of South Africa, on which it is economically dependent, has long regarded it as a territory which ought to be included within her own frontiers. Moreover, it not only borders on another centre of controversy, Southern Rhodesia, but has a slender but strategic link with Zambia--the former Northern Rhodesia--in the pontoon ferry across the Zambezi.