A glimpse of Seretse Khama's legacy

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For Sir Seretse Khama Day Holiday: Profile of the late Sir Seretse Khama, NYB, KBE, LLD, D.LITT, PHD, MP, First President of the Republic of Botswana. 30 September 1966 - 13 July 1980.

The late Sir Seretse Khama was the first President of the Republic of Botswana. He inherited an impoverished and internationally obscure state from British rule and left it as a democratic and increasingly prosperous nation with a significant role in southern Africa.

Seretse Khama was born on1 July 1921 at Serowe in what was then the Bangwato Tribal Reserve of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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