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The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act had been passed in 1949
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the British government exiled Khama from his own land in 1951.
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1961, khama founded the Bechuanaland Democratic Party.
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diamonds were discovered in 1967
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Botswana achieve the fastest rate of economic growth in the world between 1966 and 1980
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Khama died in July 1980 and was succeeded by Quett Masire
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The first reported case of AIDS occurred in 1985 and South African commandos struck Botswana that same year
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Masire stood down from the presidency in 1998, in favour of Festus Mogae.
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Elections in 1999, Mogae's Botswana Democratic Party won 30 of the 40 seats
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first ever movie based on a book, shot in 2007
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since 2012, women can now inherit a family home,
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The global economic slowdown, has meant a 15 per cent fall in diamond production in the first half of 2015.
