masire in A Sentence

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    Masire married Gladys Olebile Masire in 1958.

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    Sir Quett and Lady Masire had six children.

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    Gladys Olebile Masire.

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    Masire became the new nation's Vice-President, serving under Seretse Khama, in 1966.

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    Masire's three full terms were characterised by an emphasis on developments through regional and international organisations.

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    Khama died on 13 July 1980, and Masire automatically became acting president per the Constitution.

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    The plane was damaged and Masire was injured, but the co-pilot was able to make a successful emergency landing.

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    On 1 April 1998, when Vice-President Festus Mogae succeeded Masire as President, Khama was appointed as the new Vice-President.

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    Masire was born on 23 July 1925 in Kanye, Botswana into a cattle herding family to Gaipone(née Kgopo) and Joni Masire.

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    Five days after Khama's death, Masire was elected as President by secret ballot at the National Assembly on 18 July 1980.

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    In 2007, Sir Ketumile Masire set up the Sir Ketumile Masire Foundation to promote the social and economic well being of the society of Botswana.

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    As a principal architect of Botswana's steady economic and infastructural growth between 1966 and 1980, Masire earned a reputation as a highly competent technocrat.

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    In 1950, after graduating from Tiger Kloof, Masire helped found the Seepapitso II Secondary School, the first institution of higher learning in the Bangwaketse Reserve.

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    However, the ruling party won decisively at the national level, thus allowing Masire to maintain his position as one of the four"specially elected" members of Parliament.

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    Resenting Bathoen's many petty interferences in school affairs, Masire, working through the revived Bechuanaland African Teachers Association, became an advocate for the autonomy of protectorate schools from chiefly authority.

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    Masire was chairman of the Southern African Development Community and vice chairman of the Organisation of African Unity; he was also chairman of the Global Coalition for Africa and a member of the UN group on Africa Development.

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