I am basing my calender on Sir Seretse khama day.
A day which upon we celebrate the legacy of our first president Sir Seretse Khama.

Sir Seretse Khama was born in 1921,he was a son to Sekgoma Khama the 3rd.His name "Seretse" means the clay that binds together.

He was a really educated man, who went through a lot of trials and tribulations but in the end he manage to get through them all.One that is mostly known is his marriage to Ruth Williams a young lady who he had met while studying in London and whom he had married after a year of courtship, this interracial marriage faced a lot of opposition especially the apartheid government of neighboring South Africa and also from the elders of his tribe.


Eventually they all had no choice but to accept the union.Seretse later established the BDP, a political party with which he ran for office in the 1965 election and won thus he was declared the prime minister of Bechunaland(now known as Botswana), and in 1966 Botswana gained its indipendence from british rule and he was elected as its acting president and at this time the country was among some of the world's poorest nations and this is what Seretse set out to change and he achieved this with the discovery of Diamonds in Orapa.Using the diamonds and other resources like beef and copper he help built an economy strongly based on the export of this commodities.

And thanks to him from the year 1966 to 1980 Botswana had the world's fastest growing economy,he was president until his death in 1980 from pancreatic cancer.He is said to be the founding father of democracy in Botswana.

NB:Points were obtained from Wikipedia and paraphrased by me.For further information on Sir Seretse Khama please feel fee to visit the link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sir_seretse_khama

Thank you.