Lesego Chombo: Miss World Africa beauty queen and Botswana's youngest cabinet minister

Lesego Chombo tells the BBC she was appointed by the president before he had even met her.

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She was just 26 years old at the time - and had clearly impressed Botswana's incoming President Duma Boko, whose Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) had just won a landslide, ousting the party that had governed for 58 years.

It was a seismic shift in the politics of the diamond-rich southern African nation - and Boko, a 55-year-old Harvard-trained lawyer, hit the ground running.

His main focus, he said, was fixing an economy too reliant on diamonds, telling the BBC ahead of his inauguration that he wanted young people to be the solution - "to become entrepreneurs, employ themselves and employ others".

Key to this was finding a suitable ambassador - and Chombo was clearly it: a young woman already committed to various causes.