Western Springs, Illinois. Western Springs is a village located in Cook County, Illinois, United States and is a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 12,975. It is twinned with Rugeley, United Kingdom.
'Botswana' means a place for Batswana. The main meaning of Botswana refers to all citizens of the country without exclusion-referred to as Batswana. Batswana are democratic people who look beyond ethnic, cultural and identity differences for the stability of their country.
Afrikaans is also spoken in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia. The name Afrikaans means âAfricanâ in Dutch. It was originally used by the Dutch settlers and indentured workers brought to the Cape area in southwestern South Africa by the Dutch East India Company between 1652 and 1705. Afrikaans is spoken by 20,000 people in Botswana where it has no official status (Ethnologue). 2  Namibia. 3  Afrikaans is spoken in Namibia by 90,000 people (Ethnologue). 4  It has had constitutional recognition as a national language since independence in 1990.