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Article: The jewel shines brighter. (Botswana)(includes related articles on Pres. Festus Mogae and foreign investments)(Cover Story)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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The country, the economy
If you could hold the southern African subcontinent in your hand, and if the countries of southern Africa were stones of different sizes, textures and colours, Botswana would be the one that was big in size, earth brown in colour and, at first glance, probably the most easily overlooked. If you were a talented prospector however, with instinct and experience in such matters, you would choose it from the rest of the stones that lay in your hand and set the others aside, as attractive as they may at first appear.
It is only when you have chipped away the crust and polished the surface that you begin to see the dazzling gem that lies ...