Quett Masire
Sir
Ketumile (Quett) Masire (born
1925) was president of
Botswana for the
Botswana Democratic Party from
1980 to
1998. He stepped down and was replaced by
Festus Mogae.
After his retirement as president he has been active in diplomacy, acting as a mediator in the civil war in Congo (Kinshasa).