Gojwane
Sign in to saveGojwane is a rural village located in the Central District of Botswana, approximately 80km south of Francistown and 105km north of Palapye. The village receives government and social services from the Tonota District Council as a Remote Area Development Program (RADP) member. According to the Population and Housing Census 2022 (Version 2), Gojwane is home to approximately 1,888 people (916 males and 972 females). Gojwane contains a primary school, a health post, a Village Development Committee, Social and Community Development Office, Agricultural Office, and Tribal Administration.
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It is catalogued under topics including Populated places in the Central District (Botswana) and Villages in Botswana.
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Place details
- Locality
- Gojwane
- Region
- Central District
- Country
- Botswana
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gojwane
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Botswana
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central District
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- Central Africa Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- not observed
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Botswana
- Located in
- Central District
- Elevation
- 971
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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Gojwane is a rural village located in the Central District of Botswana, approximately 80km south of Francistown and 105km north of Palapye. The village receives government and social services from the Tonota District Council as a Remote Area Development Program (RADP) member. According to the Population and Housing Census 2022 (Version 2), Gojwane is home to approximately 1,888 people (916 males and 972 females). Gojwane contains a primary school, a health post, a Village Development Committee, Social and Community Development Office, Agricultural Office, and Tribal Administration.
Gojwane Primary School started at Marulamantsi cattle post in 1979 and classes were conducted under the shade of trees by volunteer teachers. The school moved to the settlement of present-day Gojwane in 1983 and was subsequently registered by the Ministry of Education in 1984. Today, Gojwane Primary School consists of twelve classrooms, two temporary classrooms and one administration block created in 2021. The primary school is a standard 1-7 government school, an institution maintained out of public funds and managed by the Ministry of Education. The school teaches approximately 464 students between the ages of six and twelve years of age and has approximately twenty teachers, a 23:1 student to teacher ratio.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gojwane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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