Women empowerment steers Seretse into chairmanship race

As the first woman to be appointed Botswana’s ambassador to the United States of America a position she held for almost six years, Seretse also holds the record of being the first woman within the ruling party to contest the chairmanship position.

In fact, she ran the same race in 2009 but lost by a slim margin.  At the time, Seretse was backed by the president Ian Khama and the A team. Seretse acknowledged that the opposition holds a record of fielding women candidates. “We stood strong as women in the country to oppose the ill-treatment against Letshabo because time has come for women to prove that they also can,” she said.