August 22, 2025 Dear Family and Friends, On August 26, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, George, William, and I gathered to finalize Katrina’s obituary, a collaborative effort with family and friends. In the early morning hours, as the storm passed, our small group birthed Katrina’s Dream. Twenty years later, this vision…
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Sir Ketumile Quett Joni Masire was born on 23 July 1925 in Kanye, Beuchanaland (now Botswana). 23 July, 2025, marks his centennial birthday. In commemorating this great milestone we pay tribute to one of the founders of Botswana and framers of its constitution. He was the principal architect of its economic development as minister of…
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1958 was a very significant year. That was the year Masire married Gladys Olebile Molefi on January 2. Born in Modimola near Mafikeng, after graduating from Tiger Kloof, she became a teacher at Mafikeng and later Kanye. A woman of substance, she was God fearing, kind, humble, compassionate, and hardworking; who years later as First…
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After 37 years in public life president Masire retired in 1998. In those years Botswana’s circumstances had changed significantly from what the economic experts foresaw.??From 1966 to 1998 Botswana achieved the world’s highest annual economic growth rate of any country in the world. In the words of president Masire, “We built and sustained a multi-party…
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As we celebrate his centennial birthday we remember Sir Ketumile Masire with immense joy and pride as a man who was positively animated with life. He reflected as St Irenaeus said ‘the glory of God in humanity fully alive.’ We remember his sterling leadership ingrained in his love of God and humanity. We remember “a…
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The Rt. Rev. Dr. Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba; President of the United National Independence Party (UNIP). 22 October, 2023. Our founding fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, around midnight on 24th October 1964, watched the Zambian flag hoisted in the sky clustered with sparkling stars. As it’s decades later we are celebrating the 59th independence…
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Keynote address delivered by the Rt. Revd. Dr. Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba, President of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) to commemorate the 99th birthday of Kenneth Kaunda National Day on 28th April, 2023. The Master of Ceremony Professor Jacob R.S. Malungo The Honourable Elijah Mushima, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources; The Acting Vice-Chancellor…
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Rt. Rev’d. Dr. Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba; President of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) Zambia.: Sermon preached at the Investiture Ceremony of Dr Romelle Alexzyn Horton as the First Female President of Cuttington University, Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia, on Saturday, 12th November, 2022. Bishop James, Reverend Fathers, Madam President, the Board of Trustees, Administration,…
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The Anglican Communion: Crisis and Opportunity BISHOP MUSONDA TREVOR SELWYN MWAMBA MAR. 26, 2007 — The following is the text of a speech by Bishop Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba of Botswana, delivered at the January 26-28 meeting of Ecclesiastical Law Society in Liverpool, England. Far too many preachers and speakers find themselves in the position…
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Archbishop Says He is Ready to be Shot Whilst Resisting Mugabe By Ekklesia Staff Writers 22 Mar 2007 A Roman Catholic Archbishop has said he is ready to face bullets in anti-government street protests in President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Pius Ncube, archbishop of the southern Bulawayo diocese who has called for a nonviolent uprising against…
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“Listen to the majority African voice of grace.” Pat Ashworth reports from the Ecclesiastical Law Society Conference –The Church Times Bishop Mwamba LOUD voices from Africa, aided by the “almighty dollar” and internet lobbyists, are distorting the true picture of what Africa’s 37 million Anglicans really think about sexuality and the future of the Anglican…
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