Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 16 July 2001||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Geronah | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Geronah | |||
International career | |||
Botswana | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Lone Gaofetoge (born 16 July 2001) is a Motswana footballer who plays as a defender for Geronah and the Botswana women's national team. [2] [3] [4]
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Unity Dow is a Motswana lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various government ministries. Born in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to a seamstress and a farmer, who insisted on their children obtaining an education, Dow grew up in a traditional rural village before modernisation. She earned a law degree in 1983 from the University of Botswana and Swaziland, though her studies were completed in Swaziland and University of Edinburgh, Scotland, as Botswana had no law school at the time. After her graduation, Dow opened the first all-woman law firm in Botswana and in 1997 became the first woman to be appointed as a judge to the country's High Court.
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