# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-matante
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:30.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-matante"
name: "Philip Matante"
slug: "philip-matante"
description: "Philip Parcel Goanwe Matante was a Motswana nationalist and founder of the Botswana People's Party. He was the opposition leader in the National Assembly of Botswana from its establishment in 1965 until his death in 1979."
tagline: "Motswana politician and lay priest"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Matante.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912"
deathDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Matante"
    title: "Philip Matante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Matante"
    title: "Philip Matante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Matante"
    title: "Philip Matante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Matante"
    title: "Philip Matante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Matante"
    title: "Philip Matante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56823570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump