After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland toBotswana.
2024 April 3, Nadine Schmidt, Sarah Dean and Ingrid Formanek, “Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in trophy hunting dispute”, inCNN[2]:
According to Masisi,Botswana has seen its elephant population grow to some 130,000.
^Isaac Schapera; John L Comaroff (3 June 2015),The Tswana, Routledge,→ISBN, page 3:
It has been variously interpreted as meaning: (a) "the little offshoots" (from-tswa, "to go out, to come from), (b) "the separatists, or seceders" (fromtswaana, "to separate from one another"), and (c) "those who are alike" (from-tshwaana, "to be alike"). None of these derivations is generally accepted; van Warmelo curtly dismisses them as "fruitless speculation".
“Botswana”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2026