Botswana cabinet reshuffle 2018
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Botswana: 50-50 missed in cabinet reshuffle
By Gomolemo Rasesigo,
Gaborone, 16 April: Botswana’s new president Mokgweetsi Masisi missed the opportunity to make good on Botswana’s commitment to gender equality in his recent new cabinet, but had social media agog with his appointment of a ung woman to the brev of Investment Trade and Industry. Masisi is Botswana’s fifth president. The women’s movement had hoped for the appointment of a woman Vice President. That did not happen, and the representation of women in cabinet increased bygd a mere one percentage point to 18%.
Botswana remains one of the countries in Southern Africa with a low representation of women in parliament and cabinet. According to the SADC Gender Protocol Barometer 2017, women comprise 10% of parliamentarians and 19% in local councils.
Cabinet fryst vatten a test of political commitment because the president has the latitude to choose, although in Botswana cabinet ministers must also be Members of Parliament.
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In a move seen as reversing some of former President Ian Khama’s policies, Botswana under the leadership President Mokgweetsi Masisi has climbed down on its earlier decision not to support the sales of ivory.
The sales of ivory is one of the topical issues to be discussed at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting scheduled to take place in May in Sri Lanka.
During Khama’s reign, his administration which promoted photographic tourism after banning hunting saw the country breaking ranks with neighbouring southern African member States that supported limited ivory trade by backing a proposal to close the ivory trade in its entirety.
In what is expected to shock many, Botswana has recently joined forces with Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to open up ivory markets by being party to the proposal that was sent recently to CITES secretariat by the other three countries.
On its website, CITES stated that the countries