Beata Botlhoko Kasale (24 May 1961 – 18 June 2018) was a Botswana publisher and founding editor of The Voice Newspaper. With over 30 years in Journalism, Kasale co-founded The Voice Newspaper, formerly The Francistowner Extra, in 1993 together with Donald Laurence Moore in Francistown[1] and commonly referred to as “the mother of the media industry in Botswana”.[2]