Norman Molomo

Norman Molomo
Member of the National Assembly from Gaborone–Ramotswa
In office
1965–1969
Preceded byPost created
Succeeded byWelly Seboni
Personal details
PartyBotswana Democratic Party

Norman Molomo is a Botswana politician. He was a founding member of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). He was elected to represent the Gaborone–Ramotswa constituency in the 1965 election as a member of the BDP, receiving 4,069 votes compared to his opponent's 663 votes.[1] Molomo served in the 1st Parliament of Botswana and then ran for the Mochudi constituency in the 1969 election, but he lost to Thari Motlhagodi of the Botswana People's Party.[2] He received 666 votes.[1]

Molomo is the half-brother of Matlapeng Ray Molomo with the same father, and they were both members of the mephato Mafiri.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rethinking Kgosi Linchwe And The Extraordinary 1965 Election Result". Mmegi Online. 2016-05-08.
  2. ↑ Makgala, Christian John (2025). "Electoral History and Turnover Tradition in Botswana's Outlier Constituency of Kgatleng West". Botswana Notes and Records. 57 (Special Issue on Botswana's 2024 General Election): 310.
  3. ↑ Mosothwane, Morongwa Nancy (2001). "An ethnographic study of initiation schools among the Bakgatla ba ga Kgafela at Mochudi (1874-1988)". Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies. 15 (1): 148.