BOTSWANA: When Vice-President Ian Khama Seretse Khama takes over from President Festus Mogae early in 2008 (possibly April) quieter times will come for the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)...
As the son of founding President Seretse Khama and Paramount Chief of the Bamangwato Khama should sweep the October 2009 elections...
Mogae can hand over to his Vice-President Lieutenant General Ian Seretse Khama in 2008 claiming to have secured the country's economic future (AC Vol 46 No 17)...
President-in-Waiting Ian Khama Seretse Khama strengthened his position at July 's national congress of the governing Botswana Democratic Party of which he is Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 12)...
A compromise offered by Vice-President Ian Khama Seretse Khama designated successor to President Festus Mogae (AC Vol 45 No 23) has broken down...
The paper criticises both what it calls the growth of autocracy and the way in which Mogae hand-picked Vice-President Ian Khama Seretse Khama to succeed him...
Mogae first chose him as Vice-President before he was even an MP; he is paramount chief of Botswana's biggest Setswana tribe the Bamangwato and the son of Botswana's revered first President Sir Seretse Khama...
In 2008 Vice-President and Lieutenant-General Seretse Khama Ian Khama is due to take over from President Festus Mogae who followed the triumph of his Botswana Democratic Party at the October general election by appointing two new MPs with army backgrounds to the cabinet...
It was predictably a vote for no change - until the Vice-President Lieutenant General Ian Khama Seretse Khama succeeds President Festus Mogae as head of state in just under four years' time...
As the son of the founder President Sir Seretse Khama Ian Khama is unstoppable...
Khama has not since then shown much political skill or gained much open support in the governing party but relies on his name and inheritance as the only son of the late revered first head of state Sir Seretse Khama and his English wife Ruth...
Vol 44 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In Botswana the prospect that Vice-President Ian Khama son of the first President Sir Seretse Khama and former head of the armed forces should succeed President Festus Mogae is still a divisive issue...
The governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has avoided a power-struggle between President Festus Mogae (who is also party President) and his ambitious number two national Vice-President Ian Seretse Khama (AC Vol 42 No 14)...
