Thapelo Matsheka is a Motswana politician and economist who served as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development from November 2019 to April 2021. He was elected as the Member of the

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for

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in October 2019. He is a member of the

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 ...

. Matsheka is the former Managing Director of Fiducia Services.

Career

Matsheka holds a Phd in economics from the

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. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency, the government’s entrepreneurship scheme, from 2003 to 2010. He then worked for AON Botswana before resigning to form Fiducia Services in August 2017. For the 2019 general election, Matsheka was the

's parliamentary candidate for

. He was elected and succeeded

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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 ...

appointed him as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development on 6 November 2019, and he took office on the same day. He delivered his first budget speech in February 2020. He was replaced as minister responsible for public finance in April 2021.

Other activities

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(AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2019) *

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, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2019)Board of Governors

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Matsheka, Thapelo Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from the South-East District (Botswana) Tswana people Finance ministers of Botswana Botswana Democratic Party politicians Members of the National Assembly (Botswana) Alumni of the University of Kent