Round 5: Tossup 17

The first white person to receive the death penalty in this country, Mariette Bosch, was nicknamed this country’s “White Mischief” for murdering her husband’s lover. In 1988, an Angolan military jet mistakenly shot a plane containing this country’s president Quett Masire (10[1])(“mah-SEE-ray”). The (10[1])Malan government threatened to cut off uranium supplies to the UK in an unsuccessful attempt to block the interracial marriage of Englishwoman Ruth Williams to this country’s first president, (-5[1])Sir Seretse (“seh-RET-say”) Khama. This country’s Orapa diamond mine, opened in 1971, is now the largest in the world. This country has been the oldest continuous multiparty democracy in Africa since receiving independence as Bechuanaland. For 10 points, what country led from Gaborone (“gab-oh-RO-nee”) is directly north of South Africa? ■END■ (0[1])

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