BOTSWANA: President Festus Mogae cannot curb factionalism within the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) though the opposition parties have at last agreed to run single by-election candidates; a formal opposition unity pact is expected in time for the next general elections in 2009...
President Festus Mogae then tried to mend fences by including Kedikilwe and leading K-K member Paul Paledi among the five presidential nominees to the party's Central Committee which the Merafhe-Nkate faction controls...
A compromise offered by Vice-President Ian Khama Seretse Khama designated successor to President Festus Mogae (AC Vol 45 No 23) has broken down...
On 18 February President Festus Mogae issued a presidential decree declaring Professor Kenneth Good a politics lecturer at the University of Botswana for 15 years a 'prohibited immigrant' with 48 hours to leave the country...
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...
Apart from Chissano and Mugabe only five heads of state turned up Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana Botswana's President Festus Mogae King Mswati III of Swaziland President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and President Xanana Gusmão of East Timor the ACP's newest member...
Botswana's President Festus Mogae is a candidate for the job but he too is from southern Africa and other regions are staking claims...
The BDP will again be led by President Festus Mogae with Vice-President Ian Khama almost certain to follow in 2009...
The present team President Festus Gontebanye Mogae and the Vice-President Lieutenant General Seretse Ian Khama will use the BDP congress in Gantsi on 20-21 July to entrench their position against their party critics...
