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Round 1 · 1982 AD
Opening of Jwaneng Diamond Mine
Discovered under the Kalahari sands, Jwaneng transformed Botswana's economy upon opening. It quickly became the richest diamond mine in the world by value, funding national infrastructure, healthcare, and education across the newly independent country.
Round 2 · 1956 AD
Seretse Khama Returns from Exile
After years of forced exile in Britain due to his controversial interracial marriage to Ruth Williams, the future first president of Botswana returned home to a massive, jubilant crowd in his ancestral capital.
Round 3 · 1963 AD
Establishment of Moremi Game Reserve
Concerned about the rapid depletion of wildlife by hunters, the Batawana people took the unprecedented step of establishing a reserve on their own tribal lands, creating Africa's first community-driven wildlife conservation area.
Round 4 · 800 AD
San People Painting the Tsodilo Hills
For thousands of years, the indigenous San people used red ochre to paint over 4,500 rock art images on these sacred quartzite cliffs, recording changing environments, wildlife, and spiritual rituals in the Kalahari.