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Botswana celebrates 50 years of independence

Botswana prepares to celebrate 50 years of independence and Rajan Datar gets to conduct a military band as part of the rehearsals.

At independence Botswana was one of Africa's poorest countries. Today it is one of the continent's richest - wealth principally generated by diamond mining and more recently by high end tourism and beef production.

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