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Conduct Leadership Cross
The Republic of Botswana has an honours system comprising orders, decorations, and medals. They are awarded to civilians, members of the defence force, the police, the prisons service, and teachers. Orders Botswana has the following orders: * Presidential Order of Botswana (POB) * Naledi ya Botswana (NYB) — for conspicuous service. * Cross of Gallantry (CG) — for gallantry. * Presidential Order of Honour (PH) * Presidential Order of Meritorious Service (PMS) — for meritorious service. Botswana Defence Force The Botswana Defence Force has the following decorations and medals: * Conduct Valour Cross (CVC) (1979- ) — for conspicuous valour in action against an enemy. * Defence Force Medal for Bravery (DFMB) (1979- ) — for conspicuous heroism and courage (not in action against an enemy). * Conduct Leadership Cross (CLC) (1979- ) — for good, practical, operational leadership in the face of an enemy. * Duty Code Order (DCO) (1979- ) &m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million people and a comparable land area to France, Botswana is one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most sparsely populated countries in the world. It is essentially the nation-state of the Tswana people, who constitute nearly 80 percent of the population. The Tswana ethnic group are descended mainly from Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking peoples who Bantu expansion, migrated into southern Africa, including modern Botswana, in several waves before AD 600. In 1885, the British Empire, British colonised the area and declared a protectorate named Bechuanaland. As part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
