Athaliah Molokomme

Athaliah Molokomme is the attorney general of Botswana and is the first woman to hold that position. Molokomme has been committed to advocacy for women's rights at conferences, workshops, and seminars around the world.

Athaliah Molokomme
Athaliah Molokomme (2011)
Personal details
Born(1959-04-12)12 April 1959
Francistown Botswana
NationalityBotswana
Alma materUniversity of Botswana, Swaziland

Early life and education

Athaliah Maoka Lesiba Molokomme was born on 4 December 1959 in Francistown, Botswana. She was the second of nine children born to teachers Imelda Mishodzi Molokomme and Rufus Oka Kabiwa.[1]

Molokomme holds degrees from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. In 1983, she obtained a Masters in Law from Yale Law School in the United States. She also obtained a PhD in Law from Leiden University. Her thesis, Children of the Fence: The maintenance of extra-marital children under law and practice in Botswana, was published soon after.[2]

Career

Molokomme has worked as a politician and a professor. She has taught law at the University of Botswana and has researched and published extensively in the fields of family law, women and law, customary law and employment law. Molokomme was the founding head of the Charter of the Gender Unit at Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community until May 2003 when she was appointed a judge of the High Court of Botswana.

Since the 1990s Molokomme has been a regular speaker at national, regional and international conferences, workshops and seminars in her areas of expertise.

She became the first female attorney general of Botswana in 2005.

In April 2014 it was expected that Molokomme would resign from her position as attorney general to contest the presidency of the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties, but she did not resign.[3][4]

Molokomme is currently an active member of the Justice Leadership Initiative.

See also

References
  1. "Molokomme, Athaliah Maoka Lesiba". Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. 2012. p. 253. ISBN 9780195382075.
  2. "Dr A. Molokomme". Debswana.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  3. "Molokomme to resign as Attorney General". Sunday Standard. 2014-04-07. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  4. "Attorney General not resigning". Daily News. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
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