2023 In Botswana
Events in the year 2023 in Botswana. Incumbents * President: Mokgweetsi Masisi * Vice President: Slumber Tsogwane * Speaker of the National Assembly: Phandu Skelemani * Chief Justice of Botswana: Terence Rannowane Events Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana July * 8 July — 2023 Serowe West by-election: A by-election triggered by the expulsion of Tshekedi Khama from the National Assembly. Deaths *9 January – Lesego Motsumi, politician (born 1964). References {{Year in Africa, 2023 2020s in Botswana Years of the 21st century in Botswana Botswana Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

COVID-19 Pandemic In Botswana
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complications result in death. Some people continue to experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months or yea ...
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Years Of The 21st Century In Botswana
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ...
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2020s In Botswana
This is a list of years in Botswana. 20th century 21st century {{DEFAULTSORT:Years in Botswana Botswana history-related lists Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

2023 In Botswana
Events in the year 2023 in Botswana. Incumbents * President: Mokgweetsi Masisi * Vice President: Slumber Tsogwane * Speaker of the National Assembly: Phandu Skelemani * Chief Justice of Botswana: Terence Rannowane Events Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana July * 8 July — 2023 Serowe West by-election: A by-election triggered by the expulsion of Tshekedi Khama from the National Assembly. Deaths *9 January – Lesego Motsumi, politician (born 1964). References {{Year in Africa, 2023 2020s in Botswana Years of the 21st century in Botswana Botswana Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...

Lesego Motsumi
Lesego Ethel Motsumi (1955/56 – 9 January 2023) was a Botswanan politician. She was elected to the National Assembly of Botswana, National Assembly in 1999. She became Assistant Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs (Botswana), Minister of Labour and Home Affairs from 2002 to 2003. She then became Ministry of Health (Botswana), Minister of Health until November 2004, when she became the Ministry of Transport and Communications (Botswana), Minister of Works and Transport. In the 2008 cabinet reshuffle, held upon the appointment of then president Ian Khama, Motsumi reverted to her old post as Minister of Health, serving until 2009. She served as Ministry for Presidential Affairs Governance and Public Administration, Minister of Presidential Affairs Governance and Public Administration from 2009 to 2011, also serving as acting Ministry of Defence and Security (Botswana), Minister of Defence and Security from 2010 to 2011. From 2011 to 2019, she served as Botswana's Botswana–India re ...
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National Assembly Of Botswana
The National Assembly is the sole Legislature, legislative body of Botswana's unicameral Parliament of Botswana, Parliament, of which consists of the President of Botswana, President and the National Assembly. The House passes laws, provides Minister (government), ministers to form Cabinet of Botswana, Cabinet, and supervises the work of government. It is also responsible for adopting the country's budgets. It is advised by the Ntlo ya Dikgosi, a council of Kgosi, tribal chiefs which is not a Legislative chamber, house of Parliament. Though there were legislative predecessors to the National Assembly during colonial rule, it was not until Independence of Botswana, independence in 1966 that the National Assembly of Botswana officially formed. Since then, there have been consistent multi-party elections and 5 peaceful presidential transitions. Currently, there are 65 total members of the National Assembly. Voters in single member Constituency, constituencies directly elect 57 of t ...
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Tshekedi Khama II
Tshekedi Stanford Khama (born 9 June 1958) is a Motswana politician. He was MP for Serowe West from 2008 to 21 April 2023. He was automatically disqualified from the National Assembly after missing two consecutive sessions because of his self-imposed exile to South Africa. Biography Khama is one of four children of the first President of Botswana, Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams Khama, and is the brother of former president Ian Khama. Political career Khama was elected to the National Assembly in Serowe North West in a 2008 by-election as a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) member. He was subsequently re-elected in 2009 and 2014. From 2012 until 2018 he was Minister of Environment, Conservation, Natural Resources and Tourism. In 2018, President Mokgweetsi Masisi Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi (; born 21 July 1961) is a Motswana politician who served as the fifth president of Botswana from 2018 to 2024. He served as the eighth vice president of Botswana from 12 November ...
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2023 Serowe West By-election
A by-election for the Botswana parliamentary constituency of Serowe West was held on 8 July 2023. The vacancy was caused by the expulsion on 21 April 2023 of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Tshekedi Khama of the BPF, following his absence from the minimum required two consecutive meetings of the same session to trigger a by-election per the Standing Orders of the National Assembly. The election was won by Onalepelo Kedikilwe of the Botswana Patriotic Front. The BPF's majority of 25.1 pp in the 2019 general election was increased to a majority of 37.7 pp in this by-election, further consolidating the BPF's hold on the constituency. This result makes it the highest result achieved by an opposition party in the constituency, breaking the previous 2019 record. Background Constituency Serowe West lies in the Central District and is primarily rural, with the main settlement being the village of Serowe. The constituency is part of the three historically safe BDP seat ...
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Terence Rannowane
Terence Rannowane is a Botswana judge who served as chief justice of Botswana from 2018 to 2025. He judicial career started in 1990, and he was appointed to the High Court of Botswana in 2008. Rannowane also served as chair of the National Parole Board and National Delimitation Commission. Early life and education Rannowane graduated from the University of Botswana with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1990, and from the University of Warwick with a Master of Laws degree in 2003. Career Rannowane became a Magistrate Grade II in 1990, and rose to become a Regional Magistrate in 2005. He was appointed to the High Court of Botswana in 2008. He was appointed as chair of the National Delimitation Commission, which was in charge of drawing new parliamentary constituencies, in 2012. He also served as chair of the National Parole Board and the Botswana Magistrates Welfare committee. President Mokgweetsi Masisi appointed Rannowane to succeed Maruping Dibotelo as chief justice and swore him ...
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Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million people and a comparable land area to France, Botswana is one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most sparsely populated countries in the world. It is essentially the nation-state of the Tswana people, who constitute nearly 80 percent of the population. The Tswana ethnic group are descended mainly from Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking peoples who Bantu expansion, migrated into southern Africa, including modern Botswana, in several waves before AD 600. In 1885, the British Empire, British colonised the area and declared a protectorate named Bechuanaland. As part of the ...
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Chief Justice Of Botswana
The Government of Botswana often abbreviated as GOB, is the union government created by the constitution of Botswana having the executive, parliament, and the judiciary. The Seat of the Government is located in Gaborone, Botswana. The government is led by the president. Executive This section defines the executive branch including the President, Vice President, and Cabinet. The President The President is the chief executive of the state. The President is elected president by members of the National Assembly. These members state on the ballot who they would support for President if elected, and after election to the National Assembly vote for whomever they indicated they would elect as President. The President has the following requirements: (a) is a citizen of Botswana by birth or descent; (b) has attained the age of 30 years; and (c) is qualified to be elected as a Member of the National Assembly. The President's term is limited up to 10 years, or however long the Pres ...
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