Gladys Olebile Masire
Gladys Olebile Masire (July 30, 1932 in Modimola , South Africa - May 17, 2013 in Parktown , Johannesburg , South Africa), also MmaGaone , was the wife of Ketumile Masire and therefore First Lady of Botswana from 1980 to 1998 . She became known, among other things, for charity.
biography
Gladys Olebile Masire married Ketumile Masire in 1958. The couple had six children. After he was elected president, she founded the Child-to-Child Foundation of Botswana charity in the 1980s . From 1989 until her death in 2013, she was the patron of the Special Olympics in Botswana. In 2015 she was inducted into the Botswana Sport Hall of Fame for this. A generous donation to the University of Botswana has led it to award the Lady Olebile Masire Prize to the best student in the engineering and technology faculty since the 1996/1997 school year . In 2016 she was posthumously awarded the Order of Honor Award by President Ian Khama . The diplomat Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba is the daughter of Gladys Olebile and Ketumile Masire.
Web links
- Lady Masire: Goodbye dear lady. sundaystandard.info of May 24, 2013 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hall of Fame inductees. The Patriot, September 28, 2015, accessed January 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Undergraduate Academic Calendar 2016/2017. (PDF) University of Botswana, p. 25 , accessed on January 12, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Mmoniemang Motsamai: Botswana: Khama Honors Builders of Botswana. AllAfrica, September 29, 2016, accessed January 12, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masire, Gladys Olebile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MmaGaone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Botswana first lady |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Modimola |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2013 |
| Place of death | Parktown , Johannesburg |