Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sir Ketumile (Quett) Masire (born 1925) was president of Botswana for the Botswana Democratic Party from 1980 to 1998. He stepped down and was replaced by Festus Mogae. After his retirement as president he has been active in diplomacy, acting as a mediator in the civil war in Congo (Kinshasa). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.