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Ian Khama (Seretse Khama Ian Khama)

Date of Birth: 27/02/1953
Place of Birth: Chertsey, United Kingdom


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Khama control

Delivery 'to the expectations of Batswana' is to be top priority of the new government President Seretse Khama Ian Khama announced at his inauguration on 21 October following his landslide election win (AC Vol 50 No 21)...

Although Ian Khama promised to 'guard our treasure of democracy jealously' he has quickly centralised the state media within the Office of the President...


Khama's expected triumph

Despite a depressed economy and disunity in its ranks President Seretse Khama Ian Khama's Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won its eighth successive election victory on 16 October...


It's the economy, probably

President Seretse Khama Ian Khama is unlikely to lose the reputation for dogmatism and autocracy which he earned by slapping a 30% levy on alcohol sales to curb drunkenness backing greater controls on the media and trying ­ with mixed results ­ to discipline his Botswana Democratic Party...

Ian Khama is expected to set out his plans for the next five years at a BDP rally in Gaborone on 25 October when the final election results are due to be announced...


Don't blame me!

Ever since he took office in April 2008 President Ian Khama Seretse Khama has upset the country's political professionals (AC Vol 49 No 8)...

However an easy victory in October for Ian Khama and the BDP could be denied by the impact of the recession on voters' incomes combined with renewed BDP infighting...


Power-sharing for bankrupt beginners

MDC dissidents argue that within the Southern African Development Community Botswana's Ian Khama Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Zambia's Rupiah Banda pressed for more concessions...


A new landscape unfolds

BOTSWANA: Khama carries on regardless President Ian Khama will carry on with his top-down leadership style and disinterest in parliamentary procedures...


Go East, old man

Now with leaders such as Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Botswana’s President Seretse Khama Ian Khama denouncing the ZANU-PF regime as illegal and Odinga demanding the African Union take action to remove Mugabe the mood in Africa has changed...


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