'Mamoshebi Kabi

Mosotho politician Minister of Gender, Youth and Environment 1997–1999 Minister of Transport, Post and Telecommunications 1996–1997 Member of the National Assembly 1993–1999 Motimposo 7 March 1936 Khubetsoana, Basutoland 1999 5 9 1936 3 7 y Mamoshebi Kabi (7 March 1936 – 9 May 1999) was a Mosotho politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly of Lesotho in 1993. Biography Kabi was born in Khubetsoana in 1936, the eighth child of Eliza Phakisi and reverend Elijah Phakisi.Elizabeth Sleeman (2001) The International Who's Who of Women 2002 p283 After attending the National University of Lesotho, she studied at Tennessee State University in the United States and St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. In 1958 she married Motete Kabi, with whom she had two daughters and two sons. Two years later she became a member of the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP). During the state of the emergency of the 1970s, Kabi was detained by police on fourteen occasions, and was tortured eleven times.Mamoshebi Was Killed By Guilt - Dr. Phooko Mopheme, 25 May 1999 She worked at the Institute of Extra Mural Studies at the National University of Lesotho and served as secretary general of the Women's League. Kabi was a BCP candidate in the 1993 general elections, and was one of three women elected, becoming the first female members of the National Assembly.Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p229 She was an Organisation of African Unity observer at the 1994 South African general elections. In 1996 she was appointed Minister of Transport, Post and Telecommunications. The following year she became the first Minister of Women's affairs, with the post renamed the Minister of Gender, Youth and Environment the following year.Lesotho Political Regimes and the Feminist Puzzle: Policy and Legal Legacies She died on 9 May 1999 following a long illness.Minister Kabi has passed away Mopheme, 14 May 1999 References Category:1936 births Category:1999 deaths Category:National University of Lesotho alumni Category:Tennessee State University alumni Category:St. Francis Xavier University alumni Category:Academic staff of the National University of Lesotho Category:Lesotho women in politics Category:Basutoland Congress Party politicians Category:Members of the National Assembly (Lesotho) Category:20th-century women politicians Category:Environment ministers of Lesotho Category:Transport ministers of Lesotho Category:Women's ministers of Lesotho Category:Youth ministers of Lesotho