NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
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     BOOKS (including booklets with ISBN, or produced for sale):
Blaikie, P., & H. Brooklield   (1987) Land Degradation and Sucietl' London: Methuen
     ARTICLES (in periodicals):
Mosothwane, M. (1996) .An assessment of Botswana pre-service Teachers'                      attitudes to-
wards environmental education' Musenodi (Gaborone), 4 (2): 27-36
    CHAPTERS (in books):
Kimambo, I. (1974) 'The eastern Bantu peoples', 195-209 in B.A. Ogot (ed.) Zamani: a
Survey uj East Aji'ican HistOlT Nairobi: East African Publishing House & Longman (lor
Historical Association of Kenya), 2nd edn
     UNPUBLISHED         PAPERS (produced without ISBN, not produced for sale):                         .
Molojwane,     M., & S. Chilwa (1994) 'The efficiencies of the destitute programme In
Botswana' Paper presented to [Botswana Government] Inter-Ministerial Drought Commit-
tee meeting, Francistown,     13-15 April 1994 [copy in University of Botswana Library,
Botswana    Collection]
    ARCHIVES (official or privately held):
Cape Town Archives Repository, South African National Archives [hereafter CTAR]:. OPB
 1/2 (Papers Relative to the Treatment 01- the Native'h In a b'Itants 0 f S ou them Alnca)' .
D. Moodie to Gregory,     10 Dec. 1823
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