Sir Ketumile Masire and Some Documents on Constitution Making in Botswana: Notes from My Library

Abstract

When the editor of the Botswana Notes and Records (BNR) issued a reminder on a call for papers for the 50th anniversary of the BNR and also dedicated to the life of the late second President of the Republic of Botswana, Sir Ketumile Masire, as Chairman of The Botswana Society, the publishers of the BNR, I thought of what it is that I could say as a fitting tribute to the former President, and Patron of The Botswana Society. The Society had issued a tribute on his life and role in the Society. I had had the privilege of working under President Masire on such (national) matters as: Kenya Elections in 1992, Presidential Commission on the Judiciary (Aguda Commission) of 1997, Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana from 2003 to 2011, and the Botswana Society from 2013 to 2017.