Masire passes on

Staff Writer | Friday June 23, 2017 09:25

 

“He died peacefully at Bokamoso Private Hospital surrounded by his family at 2210hrs on 22 June 2017,” the family said in a statement. 

Masire was hospitalized on June 15 in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Bokamoso Hospital. 

On June 16, 2017 the Masire family informed the public that the former President has been hospitalized in Gaborone for surgery. He was listed in stable condition in intensive care unit. 

On Saturday the doctors advised that former President Masire is responding positively to treatment but later in the week his condition was said to be “critical”. 

Masire was the second President of Botswana from 1980 until 1998.

Funeral arrangements have not yet been finalised.