Phandu Skelemani
Phandu Tombola Chaha Skelemani (born January 5, 1945 in Mapoka Village) is a Botswana politician .
biography
Promotion to Attorney General
The from the people of Motswana originating Skelemani graduated in law at the University of Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS), he with a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) graduated. He then initially worked as a lawyer and notary.
In 1973 he moved to the civil service as State Counsel and was as such a prosecutor in criminal proceedings in magistrate courts, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Botswana. In 1975 he was appointed Senior State Counsel. As such, he was his home country's legal advisor at the Geneva Conference, which in 1977 led to the inclusion of two additional protocols in the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. He was also a member of delegations at the Justice Ministers' Conference of the Commonwealth of Nations in Harare , Vancouver , Malaysia and Trinidad and Tobago . In 1978 he was appointed Principal State Counsel and Head of the Attorney General's Department of Law Enforcement.
Between 1980 and 1992, Skelemani was Deputy Attorney General and in this role, among other things, head of delegations at United Nations conferences in Vienna dealing with drug-related crime and international cooperation between law enforcement agencies. He was also a member of the Approval Committee for a Rhodes Scholarship in the Transvaal region .
In 1992 he was finally appointed Attorney General . Because of this position, he was the government's chief legal advisor and head of a delegation to a human rights conference in Tunisia , director of the Botswana Diamond Valuing Company and a member of the Political Committee for Minerals . In June 1993 he was head of the delegation at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna as well as the delegation at the negotiations that led to the 1998 Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court .
minister
In 2003 he ended his career in the legal civil service after he had previously been elected member of the National Assembly in a by-election . Since then he has represented the constituency of Francistown East .
In 2004 he was appointed to a government for the first time by President Festus Mogae as Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Mogae then appointed him Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense and Security on January 19, 2007.
Mogae's successor as President, Ian Khama , appointed him Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on April 1, 2008, after he took office.
Web links
- Biography on the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Information in rulers.org
- We should all pity Phandu Skelemani!
- SADC has failed Zimbabwe - Skelemani (Interview)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skelemani, Phandu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skelemani, Phandu Tombola Chaha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Botswana politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mapoka Village, Botswana |