# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lesego-motsumi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:26:17.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lesego-motsumi"
name: "Lesego Motsumi"
slug: "lesego-motsumi"
description: "Lesego Ethel Motsumi was a Motswana politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1999. She became Assistant Minister of Labour and Home Affairs from 2002 to 2003. She then became Minister of Health until November 2004, when she became the Minister of Works and Transport. In the 2008 cabinet reshuffle, held upon the appointment of then president Ian Khama, Motsumi reverted to her old post as Minister of Health, serving until 2009. She served as Minister of Presidential Affairs Governance and Public Administration from 2009 to 2011, also serving as acting Minister of Defence and Security from 2010 to 2011. From 2011 to 2019, she served as Botswana's High Commissioner to India."
tagline: "Motswana politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ms._Lesego_Ethel_Motsumi_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964"
deathDate: "2023-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.65
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.935565333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
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    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
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  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%AF%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "لیسگو موٹسومی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
    title: "Lesego Motsumi"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lesego_Motsumi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump