Beata Botlhoko Kasale (24 May 1961 – 18 June 2018) was a Botswana publisher and founding editor of The Voice Newspaper.
[3] At the helm of The Voice Newspaper, Kasale was a proponent of gender mainstreaming and equity in Botswana’s newsrooms.
She also worked for several organisations as chief strategist, including International Media Women’s Foundation (IMWF), African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (ACHAP), Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Press Union, Gender Links, Panos, Open Society Initiative (OSI), OSISA and AMARC.
[5] Kasale died in the early hours of 18 June 2018 after suffering for a long time with sugar diabetes at Bokamoso Private Hospital at the age of 57.
[6] A year after her passing in 2019, the Y-Care Charitable Trust – a charity she had devotedly supported - honoured the late media personality and humanitarian by setting in motion the annual Marokolwane 20 km Charity Walk, whose beneficiaries include, among others, Rasesa Primary School Library and Autism Botswana.