Botswana

National Assembly

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11th Parliament of Botswana

2014-10-29 – current

Party Groupings

  • BDP

    43 seats

  • UDC

    17 seats

  • BCP

    2 seats

  • unknown

    1 seat

What’s in this dataset?

As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.

Biographical 76%
Social links 1%
Contact details 15%
Identifiers 25%

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Abram Kesupile

UDC — Kanye South

Gender male

Alfred Madigele

BDP — Mmathethe-Molapowabojang

Gender male

Athaliah Molokomme

unknown

Gender female
Born 1959-12-04
wikidata Q17513548
viaf 68034972
freebase /m/011lhh5j
isni 0000 0000 2964 7490
lcauth n88254928

Bagalatia Arone

BDP — Okavango

Gender male
Email barone@gov.bw

Biggie Butale

BDP — Tati West

Gender male

Botlogile Tshireletso

BDP — Mahalapye East

Gender female
wikidata Q51552139

Buti Billy

BDP — Francistown East

Gender male

Christian de Graaff

BDP — Ghanzi South

Gender male
wikidata Q28434823

Dikgang Phillip Makgalemele

BDP — Shoshong

Email dmakgalemele@gov.bw

Dithapelo Keorapetse

BCP — Selibe Phikwe West

Dorcus Makgatho-Malesu

BDP — Sefhare-Ramokgonami

Gender female

Duma Gideon Boko

UDC — Gaborone Bonnington North

Gender male
Born 1969
wikidata Q18618881

Edwin Batshu

BDP — Nkange

Gender male
Born 1947-06-21
Email ebatshu@gov.bw
wikidata Q18763858

Eric Molale

BDP

Gender male

Fidelis Mmilili Molao

BDP — Shashe West

Frans Van Der Westhuizen

BDP — Kgalagadi South

Gender male

Gilbert Mangole

UDC — Mochudi West

Gender male
Email gmangole@gov.bw

Haskins Nkaigwa

UDC — Gaborone North

Ian Khama

BDP

Gender male
Born 1953-02-27
wikidata Q57449
viaf 101455210
freebase /m/049k7b
gnd 1067832742
isni 0000 0000 7193 5314

Isaac Davids

UDC — Mochudi East

Gender male

Itumeleng Moipisi

BDP — Kgalagadi North

James Mathokgwane

UDC — Goodhope-Mabule (until 2015-05-27)

Gender male
wikidata Q30057616

Joseph Molefe

BDP — Mahalapye West

Gender male

Kagiso Molatlhegi

BDP — Gaborone South

Email kpmolatlhegi@gov.bw

Kefentse Mzwinila

BDP — Mmadinare

Kenneth Matambo

BDP

Gender male

Kgosi Lotlaamoreng Montshioa

UDC — Goodhope-Mabule

Kgotla Autlwetse

BDP — Serowe North

Kitso Mokaila

BDP

Gender male
wikidata Q6418347

Kostantinos Markus

BDP — Maun East

Gender male

Lelatisitswe Sethomo

BDP — Boteti East

Liakat Kablay

BDP — Letlhakeng-Lephephe

Email lkablay@gov.bw

Mohammed I. Khan

UDC — Molepolole North

Gender male

Moiseraela Master Goya

BDP — Palapye

Gender male
Email mgoya@gov.bw

Mokgweetsi Masisi

BDP — Moshupa-Manyana

Gender male
Born 1962-07-21
wikidata Q18618891
viaf 4070152331605703260009
gnd 1155398017

Mokwaledi Ignatious Moswaane

BDP — Francistown West

Ndaba Gaolathe

UDC — Gaborone Bonnington South

Gender male

Ngaka Ngaka

BDP — Takatokwane

Gender male

Noah Salakae

UDC — Ghanzi North

Gender male

Nonofo Molefhi

BDP — Selibe Phikwe East

Gender male
Born 1959-11-20
wikidata Q18618892

Patrick Ralotsia

BDP — Kanye North

Gender male

Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi

BDP — Serowe South

Gender female
Born 1951-05-31
wikidata Q7161670

Phenyo Butale

UDC — Gaborone Central

Pius Mokgware

UDC — Gabane-Mmankgodi

Gender male

Polson Majaga

BDP — Nata-Gweta

Gender male

Prince Maele

BDP — Lerala-Maunalala

Gender male

Ronald Shamukuni

BDP — Chobe

Gender male

Sadique Kebonang

BDP — Lobatse

Gender male

Same Bathobakae

UDC — Tlokweng

Samson Guma Moyo

BDP — Tati East

Gender male

Samuel Rantuana

BCP — Ramotswa

Gender male

Sedirwa Kgoroba

UDC — Mogodtishane

Shaw Kgathi

BDP — Bobonong

Gender male
Born 1961-10-18
wikidata Q10961094

Shawn Ntlhaile

UDC — Jwaneng-Mabutsane

Gender male

Slumber Tsogwane

BDP — Boteti West

Gender male
Born 1960-09-21
Email stsogwane@gov.bw
wikidata Q52714790

Tawana Moremi

UDC — Maun West

Gender male
Email tlmoremi@gov.bw

Thapelo Olopeng

BDP — Tonota

Gender male

Thato Kwerepe

BDP — Ngami

Gender male

Tlamelo Mmatli

UDC — Molepolole South

Gender male

Tshekedi Khama II

BDP — Serowe West

Gender male
Born 1958-06-09
wikidata Q7849607

Tshenolo Mabeo

BDP — Thamaga-Kumakwane

Gender male
wikidata Q27663663

Unity Dow

BDP

Gender female
Born 1959-04-23
wikidata Q4945158
viaf 69163486
freebase /m/09r284
gnd 128557222
isni 0000 0000 8391 6911

Vincent Seretse

BDP — Lentswaeletau-Mmopane

Gender male

Wynter Mmolotsi

UDC — Francistown South

Gender male
Email wmmolotsi@gov.bw

Ruby programmer? It’s easy to use this data in your own app! Use the gem like this: 

require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Botswana')
house = country.legislature('Assembly')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/11').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

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Main Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org, http://www.parliament.gov.bw/, https://www.wikidata.org/, http://gender-balance.org/

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