Nasha to launch autobiography

Gothataone Moeng | Thursday March 6, 2014 17:59

 

Nasha is scheduled to launch her autobiography, titled Madam Speaker, Sir: Breaking The Glass Ceiling, One Woman’s Struggle this month. The book, published by Diamond Educational Publishers, will be launched at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) on March 20. She rewrote history when she was appointed the first female Speaker of the National Assembly in 2009, a year after President Ian Khama came to power.

Nasha entered Parliament in 1994, after spending 20 years working as a civil servant, including stints as a journalist for Radio Botswana, a director of the Department of Information and Broadcasting as well as a diplomat in London.

She was specially nominated for a Parliamentary seat by then president Sir Ketumile Masire, and was appointed to cabinet.  In the 1999 elections, she contested the Gaborone Central seat where she ousted then presidential candidate, Michael Dingake of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP).

She was appointed to the cabinet again by former president Festus Mogae.  She lost the Gaborone Central seat in the 2004 general elections to incumbent Member of Parliament Dumelang Saleshando, now BPC president and Leader of Opposition in Parliament. 

Her cabinet portfolio includes being Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Minister of Local Government and Minister of Lands and Housing. She was educated at the University of Botswana where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, English and History.