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Daniel Keatametse Kwelagobe (born September 1, 1943) was the Chairman of the
Botswana Democratic Party The Botswana Democratic Party ( abbr. BDP) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana, Slumber Tsogwane, and its symbol is a lift jack. The party has ruled Botswana continuously since gaining independenc ...
and the longest serving Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party, having held the position from 1980 until 2007. He is the only cabinet minister to have served under the first four President of Botswana. Kwelagobe holds the record for the youngest Member of Parliament to be elected to parliament, having achieved that feat in 1969 when he was elected MP for
Molepolole Molepolole is a large village in Kweneng District, Botswana. The people who reside in Molepolole are called Bakwena, who are one of the eight major tribes in Botswana. The Bakwena Kgosi (Chief), Sebele I was among the three chiefs who went to En ...
aged 26 years. He is also the longest serving MP, with 45 years of service in the National Assembly of Botswana. He previously served as Minister for Presidential Affairs on two occasions. He attended Gaborone Secondary School, and from 1968 followed a career in radio and journalism before beginning his political career when joining the Party and becoming the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Minister of State for Public Service, Information and Broadcasting, as well as serving as the minister for transport, communications, agriculture and housing in his career. Kwelagobe was the Deputy Secretary General of the Party until becoming the General Secretary in 1980, and was the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs from 2000 until 2002. He also served as the Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration until President
Ian Khama Seretse Khama Ian Khama (born 27 February 1953) is a Botswana politician and former military officer who was the fourth President of the Republic of Botswana from 1 April 2008 to 1 April 2018. After serving as Commander of the Botswana Defence ...
dismissed him in April 2009.


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