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Neo Moroka is Chairman of
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Botswana. He formerly was a politician in
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 ...
, serving as Minister of Trade and Industry from 2004 to 2009. Moroka earned degrees in
ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...
and was an agricultural advisor to
Barclays Bank Barclays PLC (, occasionally ) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services ...
from 1984 to 1991. He subsequently worked as managing director at BP Botswana. He was elected to the
National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...
for the first time in the October 2004 general election from Kgalagadi South constituency, representing the governing
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 ...
. Following the election, he was appointed as Minister of Trade and Industry on November 9, 2004. Moroka owns a farm near Makopong in Kgalagadi District.


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* Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kgalagadi District Living people Members of the National Assembly (Botswana) Government ministers of Botswana Botswana Democratic Party politicians {{Botswana-politician-stub