The Youngest Legislator

He is also quick to point out that he spent sleepless nights proving the endorsement right. Born in 1978 in Skondomboro village, in the Okavango district, the debutant and youthful Member of Parliament (MP) for Okavango says abject poverty and underdevelopment propelled him into standing for parliamentary elections. He comes across as a traditionalist, yet he would not say two or more sentences without giving reference to God.

Bagalatia Arone dates his interest in politics back to his student days. As a history student in 1994 at Maun Senior Secondary School, Arone says he fell in love with the politics of the African National Congress (ANC) and the apartheid struggle that Black South Africans fought to the bitter end.