Miss World Africa Beauty Queen and Junior Minister Botswana’s Cabinet

Leseg Chomb’s enthusiasm for life is as contagious as her achievements: she won Miss Botswana 2022 and Miss World Africa in 2024, a work lawyer, created her own charity fund – and created a story in November, becoming a junior minister of the office.

At the time, she was only 26 years old – and clearly impressed the incoming President Botswana Duma Bok, whose umbrella for democratic changes (UDC) had just won the landslide, displacing the party that ruled for 58 years.

It was a seismic shift in a policy rich in South Africa and Boko, a 55-year-old lawyer prepared for Harvard.

His focus, he said, was to consolidate the economy too dependent on diamonds, Saying BBC before the inauguration that he wanted the youth to be a decision – “To become entrepreneurs, employ yourself and hire others.”

The key to this was the search for a suitable ambassador – and Chomb was obvious: a young woman who was already devoted to various reasons.

He made her minister of youth and gender.

“I was never proud of what was young,” she said the BBC at the ministry’s headquarters in Gaboron’s capital.

“I am a young man who lives in Botswana, passionate about the development of youth, gender equality, but also so captured by the development of children.”

The beauty Queen did not conduct the company to become a deputy – it is called a specially elected MP – and is now one of the six deputies of women in the 69 -member National Assembly.

Chomb said he became a deputy and then the minister became a full surprise for her.

“I was recognized by the president who never met me,” she said.

“The Miss World and the Journey I thought was to pursue, because my final space was only the platform through which I would see for the same role.”

It was her wedding as Miss Botswan in 2022 that raised her profile and allowed her to campaign for social changes, trying to inspire other young women.

It also made it possible to create a forest Forest Foundation, which is focused on supporting young people in weak people and their parents in the countryside – and with which it is still involved, its projects funded by corporate campaigns and others.

“We strive to have a world in which we feel seen and heard and presented. I am very delighted with the fact that I have the very essence of this representation,” she said.

When she was preparing for last year’s Miss Universe competition, she said, “I really put myself in the service area. I really directed it to this large crown.”

Now in a political position, she knows about the expectations that treat her in a country where about 60% of the population is below 35 years.

It also has a high unemployment rate – 28%, which is even higher for young people and women who have limited economic opportunities and combat systems.

Chomba said this was that she was determined to change: “Currently, the unemployment rate is so high in Botswana.

“But this is not only the unemployment rate, it is also only a sphere of youth development.

“There is not enough, and therefore my desire is to create an ecosystem, environment, society, economy in which young people can flourish.”

Chomba stated that her plan was to develop a comprehensive system that raised initiatives under the guidance of youth, strengthened the entrepreneurship and guaranteed that the young people took place at the table when the decisions were made.

With the anti -corruption policy of Botswana, which is undergoing a strict review, she said it guaranteed that quotas for young entrepreneurs – when state departments and agencies issued tenders on goods and services – were actually achieved.

The government has launched a 10-month forensic audit of state expenses, which will include 30 state-owned enterprises.

Indeed, President Boko intends to stop corruption by considering it as a way to strengthen investors’ trust and diversify the economy – what his deputy sought to make on recent trips to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland.

And now a key transaction with the UAE CCI Global, a provider of outsourcing business processes to open the center in Botswana has been fixed.

While the development of young people is the central pillar of her work, gender capital also remains close to her heart.

Her short time coincided with the rise in criminal liability due to gender violence.

According to a report on the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), more than 67% of women in Botswana survived the abuse, which is more than twice the average.

“It is painful to know what it might be next,” she confessed.

A month after her appointment, she was criticized for voting against the opposition movement in parliament to create “peace ports” at the police stations and the magistrate courts to fight the victims quickly.

At a time when she said that such provisions had already existed in the law, and what it needed was more aware of the public.

Then, in January, in January, a police report reported that at least 100 women were raped, and another 10 killed in the festive season – it caused indignation in the public when many attacked it on social media on the matter.

Minister again confirmed – several times including before parliament in March – What in Botswana there were many laws and strategies, and what was important was to make them applied.

But she said the BBC that the government would insist on the implementation of the law on violence based on gender mode aimed at closing the legal gaps that have long hindered justice for survivors.

She said she also advocated a more holistic approach related to the Ministries of Health, Education and Local Government.

“We want the curriculum that promotes gender justice,” Hamba said.

“We want to teach children what a gender violence is and how to prevent it.

“It comes down to inclusion at home teaching gender capital as parents behave around their children as they model good behavior.”

She also spoke about the need to resolve the issues that affect men, especially around mental health and positive courage, encouraging the chiefs “to ensure that our patriarchal culture does not actively perpetuate gender violence.”

“I hear how many people say,” Why are you talking about women more than men? ” “

“This is because in society, as in society, women are mostly biased (against).

“But when we talk about gender equality, we say that it should be applied equally to everyone. But what we strive for is gender capital.”

Chomb, who studied the right at the University of Botswana, said she was grateful to her mother and other strong women for inspiring her – saying that women had to work “10 times” to succeed.

“(My mother) managed to create an environment for me. And when I got it, I realized it wasn’t easy.

“Like women, we face so much pressure:” A woman can’t do it. A woman can’t do it. A woman cannot be young and in the leadership. “I am currently faced.”

She also attributed Julia Morley, CEO Miss World, for helping her: “She was able to create a heritage what we call the beauty for so many young girls around the world.

“She just inspired us so deeply to take on social responsibility.”

Chomba is serious about it. The Royal Queen-Diple-Bim-Minister knows that she has created a story-ale also knows her true work has just begun.

“Effect. Material influence. That’s how success I will be,” she said.

“I want to look back and see what he is and it’s steadily. What, when I leave, someone else is able to move it.”

Additional report from innocent selatlhwa in Gaboron