Organizers

 

Convenor : Justice Motlhabani

Justice has had an illustrious debating career dating back to the year 1999 when he was top speaker in several Botswana schools tournaments. Internationally he has adjudicated at the South African Universities Debating Championships at KwaZulu-Natal- Durban in 2005 and debated in Stellenbosch 2006, Rhodes 2007, Bloemfontein 2008 and JoziSpeak in 2009. He is twice quarterfinalist and currently a semi-finalist of the South African Championships. He debated at the World Universities Debating Championship in Vancouver Canada and adjudicated in Bangkok Thailand, Cork Ireland and in Antalya Turkey. He has served as Botswana’s representative in the South African Debating Council, World Schools Council and in the World Debating Council, vigorously lobbying to bring the World Championships to Africa, since 2006, leading and presenting Botswana’s bid four times at World Council.

He convened the first and second Pan-African Universities Debating Championship in a row comprising 10 African countries. He also coached the best performing Botswana team to date at the World Schools Debating Championship in Washington DC, his team was ranked 24th in the World ahead of USA, Germany and Czech Republic.   As a debate trainer, he has run debate workshops in Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe and in South Africa at the ASDC where he adjudicated semi- finals of the African schools Debating Championships and adjudicated finals of the Zimbabwe Universities Debating Championships in Bulawayo. He was also a consultant for IDEA in the British Parliamentary Track at the Youth Forum in Bosnia Herzegovina. He was also on the list of 30 sponsored adjudicators for Qatar WSDC in February 2010 and Adjudicated finals of the FLTRP CUP in Beijing China in May 2010.  He has been diversifying to learn and adjudicate other debating formats, including the Karl Popper Debating Format, Australasian format and American policy debate format.

Deputy Convenor & Finance Director : Tebogo Taylor Mogotsi

 

Tebogo is a final year student in Political Science and History at the University of Botswana. He has been doing debate for over 5 years. He has been the President of the University of Botswana Debate Masters Association and since then been amongst the founders of the Pan African Universities Debating Championship in 2008 and was the Finance and Sponsorship Director for PAUDC for the two years. He has also been working on bringing worlds to Botswana since 2007 and he is the Finance and Sponsorship Director for Botswana Worlds 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tournament Director : Vivek Ramsaroop

 

 

Vivek is an Economics graduate student from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. A former World Schools Debating Championships finalist in Stuttgart, Vivek is a 3 time finalist of the South African Universities Debating Championships (but never won it!) and has represented UCT at the WUDC in Ireland and Thailand. He has also been a member of the South African Schools Debating Executive which is tasked with the coordination of all schools debating in South Africa. Vivek has coached South African teams to the finals of the Karl Popper World Debating Championships as well as being a trainer at the IDEA Youth Forum in Czech Republic and Bulgaria. He has also served on the organising committee of the African Schools Debating Championship, the largest and most prominent event on the continent.

He was a DCA and tournament director at PAUDC 1 and 2, and is also doing some mad debate work in Uganda. Word.

 

Communication : Matt Phillips

Matt graduated from the University of Florida with honors in economics, with a minor in African studies. Having studied economics in sub-Saharan Africa, Matt has a firm understanding of global business and the role with which technology fits in even the most remote locations of the globe. Since graduating, Matt has taken on a position with Hewlett-Packard, a fortune #9 company, as the Global 1000 Inside Sales Representative. He looks forward to sharing the success that will undoubtedly come from working with the talents and skill sets of the Botswana Worlds organizing committee for 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration : Graham Sowa
Graham was introduced to African Debate during his time in Botswana studying for a Masters degree in Public Administration at the University of Botswana. As a champion caliber debater during his high school years in Texas, Graham has a firm understanding of the processes and challenges of hosting a debate tournament. During his time on the organizing committee for both the first and second PAUDC, he has mastered the art of "getting things done" when everyone else seems to be sleeping on their desks because it is "too hot to work right now" or "I was out at the Lizard Lounge and am too hung over to work today, come back tomorrow". Graham is currently enrolled as a Medical Student at The Latin American School of Medicine, in Havana, and is looking forward to coming back to Botswana to party, see old friends, and most importantly host one of the greatest tournaments the debate world has to offer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communication : Thato

 

Thato started debating in 2002 and is the currently Training Coodinator for the Monash South Africa Debate team. Founder and former president of Monash South Africa Debate club.  2 time quarter finalist at South African Nationals, Semi Finalist at the Inaugural  Pan African Debate Championships. Passionate about debate, and active in charity work at Monash South Africa and in Botswana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kgosi “Chief” Moremong
Chief joined the world of debate whilst studying in Malaysia at Multimedia University.  During this period he went on to represent them at numerous local and international tournaments including the Austral-Asian intervarsity championships and organize the Malaysian Debate Open. Worlds presented the perfect opportunity for Chief to help further the debate cause back home in Botswana.
He is a proud Manchester United supporter and is always up for a debate about why they are better than Liverpool. His hobbies include playing squash and bird watching. As the transport director this is the man you want to see if your planning on travelling anywhere all through the tournament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Director : Kate Stegeman
Some might refer to Ms Stegeman as a hack. She likes to think of herself as a veteran… Veteran connoisseur of yakka*, that is. She’s dabbled is a bit of debating too over the years. Once upon a time Kate adjudicated a Worlds final. But that was a long time ago in a place far away. She was also had the honour of being the token African representative judge at Euros in Istanbul, as well as representing Rhodes University (South Africa) as a speaker, adjudicator and schools coach at various national and international competitions.
Kate has an MSc in Violence, Conflict & Development from The School of Oriental & African Studies. She works as a freelance journalist in South Africa in both the print and televisions mediums. As well as being in charge of publicity for Bots Worlds, she is making a documentary on the competition. So be nice to her. Tell her she looks young and nothing like a hack. And ply her with yakka. Then she'll make you look good on camera.
*delicious lime flavoured alcoholic brew served at the yakka party, traditionally hosted by the South African delegation at Worlds.
Socials Director
Enele Mankhi is currently working as Head of MIS at Regent Botswana. She has debated both nationally and internationally. From being captain of debating clubs at Junior and Senior school level to being national team captain at the World Schools Debating Championships in 2007, she has gained quite some experience as a debater.