Gladys Kokorwe

Gladys Kokorwe
Speaker of the National Assembly
of Botswana
In office
12 November 2014 – 5 November 2019
Preceded byMargaret Nasha
Succeeded byPhandu Skelemani
Personal details
Born (1947-11-28) 28 November 1947 (age 76)
Cape Town, South Africa
Political partyBDP

Gladys Keitumetse Theresa Kokorwe[1] (born 20 November 1947)[2] is a Botswana politician who was the Speaker of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019. She is a member of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). [3]

Prior to entering politics, Kokorwe was a senior civil servant. She was elected to the National Assembly at the 1994 general election, and served as an assistant minister in the government of Festus Mogae from 1999 to 2004.[4] She was deputy speaker from 2004 to 2008, and then a minister in Ian Khama's government from 2008 to 2009, when she left parliament. Kokorwe served as Botswana's ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2014, and then re-entered politics after the 2014 election, when she was the successful BDP candidate for speaker. [4][3]

  1. ^ "PAP Member Countries". Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Typing her speaker's script". Mmegionline. 20 April 2007.
  3. ^ a b "100Women | Avance Media | Gladys Kokorwe". Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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