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Mariette Bosch was looking for peace and security when she emigrated north from South Africa to Botswana nine years ago. For a while she appeared to have found just that. With her husband Justin and three children, she enjoyed a comfortable life amid the tightly knit expatriate community in an upmarket suburb of Gaborone, the overgrown village that is Botswana's capital. Bosch's days were pleasant ones, filled with school runs, shopping, socializing, decorating porcelain dolls, baking cakes...
...Marthinus, known as Tienie-with whom she had been having a passionate affair since shortly after her own husband's death in a 1995 auto accident. Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch-who still maintains she is innocent-would be the first white woman to be executed in Botswana's history...
...only view that really matters so far-that of the Commonwealth judges acting last week as Botswana's top Court of Appeal-Bosch's motive was "wicked and despicable" and there are no extenuating circumstances to save her from the mandatory death penalty. "The murder had been planned over a long period, no doubt as a result of jealousy and infatuation," said Judge Timothy Aguda of Nigeria...
...There are signs of change. A small but growing movement of gay activists is making its voice heard in southern African states like Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Inevitably, the most outspoken campaigners are still harassed. In Zambia, the government has refused to register gay groups as official organizations. And in Zimbabwe in 1999, government appointees on a commission charged with drafting a new constitution booed and howled when members of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe called for the inclusion of a sexual orientation clause. Still, a decade ago such a proposal would have been unthinkable. "There is growing...
...first one, Kgalagadi, which means Land of Thirst, was created last year by merging two parks that straddled the border of South Africa and Botswana. The combination is a 14,600-sq.-mi. wilderness area in which tourists and animals can move freely. Since the formal opening last May, tourist traffic has been projected to triple to 150,000 visitors annually. A Peace Parks Club run by the foundation offers 10-day tours of the park that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced rangers of the San tribe, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...