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18-691: The Botswana Defence Force was raised in April 1977 by an Act of Parliament called the 'BDF Act NO 13 of 1977. At its formation, Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe (retired and former Vice President of the Republic of Botswana (now deceased)) became its first Commander. The former President of the Republic of Botswana , Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama , then Brigadier , was the Deputy Commander. Unusually for an African military force, and chiefly attributable to its being founded after Botswana's independence,

36-435: A business owner with two stores might make a grouped bar chart with different colored bars to represent each store: the horizontal axis would show the months of the year and the vertical axis would show revenue. Alternatively, Stacked bar charts (also known as Composite bar charts ) stack bars on top of each other so that the height of the resulting stack shows the combined result. Unlike a grouped bar chart where each factor

54-643: A wide array of modern weapons and vehicles. Its suppliers are Russia and Western nations, including Switzerland , the United States , France , Germany , the Netherlands , Austria , Belgium , Italy , and the United Kingdom . In 2016 the Ministry of Defence of Botswana ordered 45 Piranha 8×8 armoured vehicles made by General Dynamics Switzerland. List of heads of state of Botswana The president of

72-671: A wide view of ‘security’ and consider the Defence Force an appropriate agency for attaining much of it, an issue that has been discussed even in the BDF's own internal media. It is expected that the BDF in general is meant to be an apolitical instrument of the state. The current stated mission of the Botswana Ground Force is: To defend the country and provide for the security of Botswana, participate in external security cooperation activities, and contribute in domestic support operations, with

90-405: Is a chart or graph that presents categorical data with rectangular bars with heights or lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a column chart and has been identified as the prototype of charts. A bar graph shows comparisons among discrete categories . One axis of the chart shows

108-436: Is displayed next to another, each with their own bar, the stacked bar chart displays multiple data points stacked in a single row or column. This may, for instance, take the form of uniform height bars charting a time series with internal stacked colours indicating the percentage participation of a sub-type of data. Another example would be a time series displaying total numbers, with internal colors indicating participation in

126-628: The Botswana Ground Force was not formed from colonial units formed by a colonising power, but rather were formed from the remains of the Botswana Mounted Police Unit, previously known as the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, a unit of the British South Africa Police . The contemporary roles of the Defence Force are broad for a conventional military, suggesting that the government of Botswana and the BDF subscribe to

144-532: The National Assembly is automatically elected. If no candidate receives a majority of endorsements, the National Assembly elects the president by simple majority, before it co-opts the specially elected members. If no president is elected after three ballots, or if the Speaker determines that no candidate has enough support to be elected, the legislature is automatically dissolved for fresh elections. In practice,

162-494: The Republic of Botswana is the head of state and the head of government of Botswana , as well as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces , according to the Constitution of Botswana . Sir Seretse Khama was the prime minister from 1965 to 1966, however he later became president of Botswana, and as of 2024 there have been no prime ministers since. The president is elected to a five-year term that runs concurrently with

180-589: The aim of: The commander-in-chief of the BDF is Mokgweetsi Masisi , the current President of Botswana. Answering to him is Lieutenant General Placid Segokgo. The various units of the Botswana Ground Force are as follows: The BGF and the Botswana Air Force maintain the same rank system, which is loosely based on British or Commonwealth rank systems. The ranks are as follows: The rank insignia of commissioned officers . The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel . The BDF uses

198-406: The chart may be arranged in any order. Bar charts arranged from highest to lowest incidence are called Pareto charts. Bar graphs can also be used for more complex comparisons of data with grouped (or "clustered") bar charts, and stacked bar charts. In grouped (clustered) bar charts , for each categorical group there are two or more bars color-coded to represent a particular grouping. For example,

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216-490: The first bar chart in history. Diagrams of the velocity of a constantly accelerating object against time published in The Latitude of Forms (attributed to Jacobus de Sancto Martino or, perhaps, to Nicole Oresme ) about 300 years before can be interpreted as "proto bar charts". Bar graphs/charts provide a visual presentation of categorical data. Categorical data is a grouping of data into discrete groups, such as months of

234-515: The president is the leader of the majority party or alliance in the Assembly. Also, given the first-past-the-post system for the National Assembly, majority governments have been the rule in Botswana since independence. Died in office This is a graphical lifespan timeline of presidents of Botswana. The presidents are listed in order of office. Bar chart A bar chart or bar graph

252-523: The specific categories being compared, and the other axis represents a measured value. Some bar graphs present bars clustered in groups of more than one, showing the values of more than one measured variable. Many sources consider William Playfair (1759-1824) to have invented the bar chart and the Exports and Imports of Scotland to and from different parts for one Year from Christmas 1780 to Christmas 1781 graph from his The Commercial and Political Atlas to be

270-469: The term of the National Assembly . Previously, a president could be reelected any number of times. In 1997, under the second president, Quett Masire , term limits were imposed on the office for the first time. Since 1998, the president has been limited to a total of 10 years in office (equivalent to two full terms), whether successive or separated. The first president for whom the term limits applied

288-428: The total by sub-types. Stacked bar charts are not suited to data sets having both positive and negative values. Grouped bar charts usually present the information in the same order in each grouping. Stacked bar charts present the information in the same sequence on each bar. Variable-width bar charts, sometimes abbreviated variwide (bar) charts, are bar charts having bars with non-uniform widths. Generally: Roles of

306-427: The year, age group, shoe sizes, and animals. These categories are usually qualitative. In a column (vertical) bar chart, categories appear along the horizontal axis and the height of the bar corresponds to the value of each category. Bar charts have a discrete domain of categories, and are usually scaled so that all the data can fit on the chart. When there is no natural ordering of the categories being compared, bars on

324-421: Was Festus Mogae , who was required to leave office for good in 2008. Each president gets a guaranteed pension. The president is elected by the members of the National Assembly following a general election. All candidates for the National Assembly declare whom they endorse for president when they lodge their nomination papers, and the candidate who receives a majority of endorsements from the elected members of

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