Now it has more than 1,800 miles. In 1966, there were 20 university graduates. Now there are 20,000. Transportation facilities have been expanded. Railroads were constructed to link the country with South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Plans are underway to construct another railroad across the Kalahari to the coast of Namibia.
Pastoralism is their majoreconomic activity outside the mining sector that employs only a fraction of the work force. At independence, Botswana was one of the world's poorest countries. Today it is one of the world's fastest growing countries. Liberia is 149 years old and Botswana is just 30 years old. So when Tubman died we felt that corruption from Steven Allen Benson administration to the Tubman regime was buried with him.