Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi

Reports suggested she was financing Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi who was challenging Masisi with Khama's backing for the ruling party's leadership ahead of the October 2019 general election (AC Vol 60 No 8 Key round to Masisi)...

She and ex-President Khama supported Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi in her bid to become leader of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) at its elective congress last year (AC Vol 60 No 8 Key round to Masisi)...

President Masisi has seen off several challenges to his leadership the last of which saw the Khama-supporting long-serving former cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi withdraw her bid at the BDP congress in April (AC Vol 60 No 8 Key round to Masisi)...

Masisi's targets are loyalists of former President Ian Khama and those who supported Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi's aborted bid for the party presidency (AC Vol 60 No 8 Key round to Masisi)...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi has fended off a dangerous challenge for the leadership of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from former senior cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi widely seen as a stalking horse for former President Ian Khama...

Khama who is backing Pelonomi Venson Moitoi for the leadership of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party at its coming congress has been a trenchant critic of governments in Zimbabwe both under Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 60 no 3 A party at war)...

Long-serving cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi declared her intention to take over from Masisi on 19 December...

Botswana's Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi a veteran of President Seretse Khama Ian Khama's cabinets and now Foreign Minister was regarded as a strong prospect as recently as last October but has faded as the sheer firepower of the major backers made itself felt (AC Vol 57 No 22 Amina jumps to the front)...

Strong defenders of the Court include Botswana's Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi...

Until recently the favourite had been Botswana's Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi...