Baratiwa Mathoothe is a Motswana politician who is MP for Serowe North since 2019. He was appointed Assistant Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship in the

Boko cabinet The Boko cabinet is the sixteenth and current cabinet of Botswana. It was formed on 1 November 2024 following the general election held on 30 October 2024, which resulted in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) losing power after 58 years of unin ...

in November 2024, after President Duma Boko's 2024 electoral victory. He is assistant to Tiroyaone Ntsima In his tenure, he has strengthened economic ties with Colombia.

Career

In 2023, Mathoothe was arrested because he shared a leaked

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 2014 to 1 April 2018. He was ...

State of the Nation speech in the Parliament WhatsApp group. He was concerned at how it was publicly available despite the President not delivered it yet. That night,

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officers arrived at his house and arrested him. Mathoothe alleged it was the ruling

Botswana Democratic Party The Botswana Democratic Party (Abbreviation, abbr. BDP, colloquially known as Domkrag) is a centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Botswana. From the country's 1965 Bechuanaland general election, inaugural election in 1965 until th ...

who investigated him. He was later released.

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