Historical Lessons for Rural Development in Botswana: Recollections on the Bamangwato Development Association, 1960s and Early 1970s

Abstract

Until the very last years of the colonial period there were no Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
in Botswana, certainly none as we know them today. There were the Wayfarers and the Pathfinders, later
transformed into the Scouts and Guides, and the mission institutions, the hospitals at Mochudi, Molepolole,
Kanye and Ramotswa (although this was very small), the few clinics and the secondary schools at Kgale;
and Moeding and Francistown –both of which were established only in the early 1960s.