"In the forties I remember Sir Seretse Khama hitting headlines because he had married a white Englishwoman - which would rightly be unremarkable now, but the climate was very different fifty-odd years ...

An empty chair stood out in the packed VIP marquee at Gaborone’s parliament grounds as Botswana marked and celebrated Sir Seretse Khama Day on the weekend. It was a chair meant for Botswana’s former ...

He hailed from the golden plains of Botswana and she came from the grey suburbs of Reading. Yet despite their drastically different backgrounds, Marcus ter Haar instantly fell in love with Julie ...

Some stories are too good to be true — and some are so fantastical that they can only be based on reality. Such is the case with the true story of African prince Seretse Khama and English clerk Ruth ...

LADY RUTH KHAMA: The marriage of a young, middle-class Englishwoman to a handsome black African would have caused comment and… LADY RUTH KHAMA: The marriage of a young, middle-class Englishwoman to a ...

Former Botswana president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama has come out guns blazing against his detractors. In an exclusive interview with Independent Media in his Gaborone office, Khama sought to allay ...

A ray of sunshine reached down through Britain’s gloomy House of Commons last week and glanced brightly off a pale gold wedding ring on the hand of a young Negro in the visitors’ gallery. It was a ...

Seretse Khama was born in 1921 in Bechuanaland when it was still a British Protectorate. In 1966 he became Botswana's first president. In between he married a white Londoner, Ruth Williamson, was ...

Sir Seretse Khama International Airport serves Botswana’s capital city of Gaborone and it is the country’s busiest airport in terms of passenger volumes. The airport’s daily operations are currently ...

Morphing from an obscure first-time MP in 2009 to a surprise vice presidential appointment in 2014, and then president in 2018, the man affectionately known as “Sisiboy” (a play on his surname) has ...