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Gaborone \u2014 As an economist, politician, and, perhaps most instrumentally, in his temperament, the late Festus Gontebanye Mogae was an old-school liberal.<\/p>\n
His liberal values combined with his candor made him stand out as something of an anomaly among his twenty-first-century peers in leadership positions around the world.<\/p>\n
He exhibited a rare combination of personality and worldview that, somewhat ironically, contributed to his exceptional ability to place Botswana, along with himself, in the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gaborone \u2014 As an economist, politician, and, perhaps most instrumentally, in his temperament, the late Festus Gontebanye Mogae was an old-school liberal. His liberal values combined with his candor made him stand out as something of an anomaly among his twenty-first-century peers in leadership positions around the world. He exhibited a rare combination of personality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,23469,6212,9548,257,7016,34982,254,11549],"class_list":["post-233133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-festus","tag-global","tag-mogae","tag-news","tag-patriot","tag-pragmatic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statesman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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