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...himself re-elected as President. He has forced the opposition to recognize him as President and to enter into a deal that preserves his power. This modus operandi is becoming all too common in Africa - think Kenya - and is leading to a great deal of bloodshed. Ian Khama, the President of the oldest democracy in Southern Africa, Botswana, has denounced power sharing as a means of keeping losing parties in power. In a recent interview, he said: "If a ruling party thinks it's likely to lose, and then uses its position as a ruling party to manipulate the outcome...
...have seen the rise of a new generation of leaders, subdued heroes who have replaced the titans of the past and emphasize self-reliance and good governance: men and women such as Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Botswana's Ian Khama. In that sense, the Zimbabwe crisis does indeed present a "moment of truth" for Africa's leaders, as Tanzanian U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told delegates at an African Union (A.U.) heads of state summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on June 30. Africa must either continue with...
DIED. Sir Seretse Khama, 59, popular President of the southern African nation of Botswana since its independence in 1966; of cancer; in Gaborone, the capital. The hereditary chief of the Bamangwato, the dominant tribe among the Texas-size, cattle-herding country's 830,000 people, Khama was exiled to Britain by tribal elders in 1950 after his marriage to Ruth Williams, a white English secretary he met while studying law in London. He finally renounced his chieftaincy in order to return and to enter politics, winning election as Prime Minister in 1965 and as President the following year. While...
...government there are refreshingly few bodyguards and black Mercedes limousines; most of the Cabinet ministers drive pickup trucks, since they tend to be farmers. Under Khama's leadership, the country's economic planning is so rigidly controlled that no expenditures for approved projects are permitted until the funds have been raised. Thanks to this careful management, and greatly aided by the country's mining industry, Botswana's economy is roaring along with a growth rate of 25% a year, one of the highest in the world. Per capita income has risen from...
Botswana has never tried to conceal its heavy dependence on its trade links with Pretoria. "There is still only one way in and one way out," says a member of the government. And South Africa never lets Botswana forget this basic fact. Indeed, this is one reason Khama's government is so deeply committed to the cause of peace in the region. Once the fighting stops in Rhodesia, Botswana can begin to build new trade routes to Zambia, Namibia and even the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, thereby reducing its dependence on South Africa for access to the world...