Thanks for all the info. sent to me by PM by some people whose posts i have not seen in CD but who were concerned that i should not fall into any trap in Botswana..
My family in India is dead against this, esp. when i told them that 33% of all the people in Botswana are HIV infected. They donot want me to take a chance there. My father has told me to try Dubai as it would be a more friendly and culturally neutral place for a person like me with Cdn. passport.
I have decided not to take the job and have communicated to the concerned person that i was not interested.

TK A
Sidenote : When i was working in L&T in1996 earning Rs. 10K a month, a person who was working with me (same designation and qualification as me but 1 year senior to me) got the same govt. dept's offer for Rs. 20K a month (with out family status and possibly car/ sep. house) and he was close to agreeing, until his wife said No.

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

Hello TK,
Canada is sending a lot of Tents with fine screenings and I feel you should get a GOOD Mosquito Net befor eyou start on your journey. Hopefully that should take care of the ten percent of the fears associated with the move. Then the rest will fall in place, such as bottled water, boiling before drinking etc., I have seen a few of the Hive keepers wearing a netted straw hat, if you ever have to go on field trips. See if it calls for. Also find out if you get some of the sparys that I USED to carry back home, which they confiscated once because it was a pressure cannister, so now I carry the liquid variety that keeps the Mosquitoes away. Such as ODOMOS.
Try and locate a water filtering company here or in the USA and see if they have a supplier with ample spares for your usage. There is a Grest big desert there that I have heard of. Never went into the interior to explore.
The population extinction rate is 3.0% every five years. Currently 1.5 Million and a million in 2050+/ or sooner. Forty years is the longest one lives. If you are 39, then stay at that age. Currency is calle Pula divided into thebe. With your earnings you will be a king in the jungle. Don't take any wooden nickels. If you do find a 'great big rock', call me and I will land a private jet to get you out, in twenty four to an island near by. You do have a link to me. Or use the shoe phone, like 'dicky Smart' did. But before you leave I want to see you in real life.
As they say "Paarkalaam". May God go with you,

Freddie.