Staff Profiles

Bachelor of GeoInformatics and Surveying (Honors) Registered Professional Land Surveyor

A professional, who through academic training and experience in the application of land surveying principles is capable of assuming responsibility and exercising independent judgment in the various land surveying profession. Works under general supervision. Analysis and Evaluation: Proficient in assessing and formulating solutions. Interpersonal/Communication: Strong team working, leadership and communication skills.

Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology

Medical laboratory professional with nine years experience in a clinical laboratory. I posses excellent clinical laboratory skills, with commended perfomance  in conducting and analysing laboratory assays and resolving complex clinical and instrument problems. I am accurate, reliable, deligent and focused on timely, quality completion of all laboratory procedures. Work well under pressure with time constraints within a high volume environment.

!. D.Lit @ Phil, (2013). University of South Africa

2. Post Grad. Clinical Nursing (2007). SMMU, Shanghai, China

3. Masters of Nursing Sciences (Adult Health), (2004) University of Botswana

4. Bachelor of Nursing Education, (1998). University of Botswana

5. Midwifery (1990) IHS Gaborone

Dr W. M. Baratedi was born during the Mid 60s in Moshupa. He did his primary and lower secondary education in the same village before going to Lotsane S.S.S., Palapye where he completed his Secondary Education. Dr Baratedi went on to pursue his Nursing career at the then National Health Institute (NHI) and completed his diploma in 1988. He was employed by the Kweneng District council but was further sent to study Midwifery for a year at NHI. In 1991 He resigned from the council to join the Military. He did basic Military Officer Cadet training for a year thereafter worked in Francistown. In 1995 He went on to study Bachelor of Nursing Education at the University of Botswana. It was then that he was transferred to the Military Headquarters and was appointed a training officer, Nurse in-charge, officer commanding, and recruitment officer. During the civilian uprising in Lesotho in 1999, he was posted as part of the peace keeping force to mediate in Lesotho uprising. On coming back from Lesotho He went to UB to study Masters of Nursing Sciences. In 2005, He went to India to study Officer Recruitment course, which was followed by Clinical nursing course in, China in 2007. On coming back from China, he enrolled to study Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Health studies with the University of South Africa. On retiring from the Military in 2011, he joined the Institutes of Health Sciences as a lecturer, teaching midwifery b. Dr Baratedi finally joined the University in 2015

Teaches Adult Health Nursing courses for both undergraduate and Graduate programmes

Teaches Research for both Graduate and under graduate programmes

Teaches Advanced Concepts in Nursing for Masters programme

Teaches HIV care, management and control to Undergraduate students 

Supervises clinical practicums for undergraduate students. 

Dr W. M. Baratedi's research interest is in Non-communicable conditions, HIV and AIDS and Education. However, with current evolution regarding Covid 19, Dr Baratedi has has joined the rest of the nursing fraternity in search for the causes, management and ways to mitigate its effects among humanity. Currently, Dr Baratedi is engaged on a study to find out experiences of adolescents who acquired HIV vertically; Experiences of Deaf people in accessing health care in Sub-Saharan Africa  

1. Adult health Nursing 

2. Midwifery

3. Critical Health 

4. Communicable and NON-Communicable conditions

1. Thupayagale-Tshwenagae, G., Dithole, K. S., Baratedi W. M., & Raditloko, S. (2020).  Academic Incivility among Nurse Educators: views of Nurse Educator Leaders

2. Baratedi, W. M., Tshiamo, W., Mogobe, D. & Mcfarland, D. (2019). Barriers to Prostate cancer screening  among men in Sub-Saharan Africa.

3. Baratedi, W. M., Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, G., Ganga-Limando, M (2014). Experiences of HIV Sero-discordant couples in Botswana 

MPhil, SOAS (University of London)

MA, SOAS (University of London)

PGDE, (University of Botswana)

BA Humanities (History and English), (University of Botswana)

I have 25 years teaching history at the University of Botswana and have engaged in various teaching, research and community activities. I have supervised  a considerable number of undergraduate research essays. I have also served the Department of History and  Faculty of Humanities on various Committees of the University. I am a member of the Democracy Research Project which based here at the University of Botswana. The body has done extensive research on Botswana Democracy and in that sense contributing  to community and to national development. Presented  academic papers at. International conferences. In 2018, I was part of the History Department research team on a study commissioned Debswana Diamond Company to Determine if there was any Historical Relocation to make way for Orapa, Letlhakane, Damtshaa and Jwaneng mines in Botswana.

History of Botswana( Pre- Colonial, Colonial and Post colonial periods). The area raises the historical reconstruction of the people of the area of Botswana over ages, and reconstruction of social and environmental change as well as of the growth of forms of political organisations.

History of North Africa ( Essentially a comparison of French and British Colonialism

General History of Africa (African civilisations, Atlantic slave period up to  Africa's colonisation.

Political History of Botswana; Contemporary Chieftainship in Botswana; Nationalism and Islam in North Africa; Labour movements in Algeria and Tunisia; Algerian War of Independence

North African Politics with particular reference to Wars of liberation. Middle East Politics. The political history of Botswana from the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial. Liberation History of Southern Africa.

The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and its Linkage to the Algerian War of Independence, The Maghreb Review Journal, Volume 44, No. 1, 2019, pp.3-15.

The End of the Algerian War of Independence: British Interest, The Maghreb Review Journal, Volume 41, No.3, 2016, pp.371-394.

The Sakiet Sidi Youssef incident of 1958 in Tunisia and the Anglo-American 'Good Offices' mission, The Journal of North African Studies, Volume 17, Number 2, 2012, pp.355-371.

'Knight Maripe (1927-2006)', in The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500 to Present, Volume V, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, pp. 2220-2222.

'Parliament', in Zibani Maundeni (ed.), Transparency Accountability and Corruption in Botswana, Cape Town: Made Plain Communications, 2008.

The decline in the role of Chieftainship in elections,Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, Volume 14 Number 1, 2000, pp.65-75.

PhD (Biology) - Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

MSc (Aquatic Health) - University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

MPhil (Fish Parasitology) - University of Zimbabwe

BSc Hons (Biological Sciences) - University of Zimbabwe

Professor Barson worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor of parasitology at the University of Zimbabwe for 15 years before joining the University of Botswana in 2020. His research spans systematics, ecology and pathology of helminth parasites of African freshwater fishes, both wild and cultured. Prof Barson is an alumnus of the US Fulbright Research Scholar fellowship and a recipient of the African Union-TWAS Young Scientist of the Year award. Prof Barson served for three years as a member of the Aquatic Animal Health Standards Committee of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and also consults for the FAO, OIE and the AU-IBAR on aquatic animal health issues in Africa. To date, he has authored more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed publications.

BIO 112 - Animal Diversity

BIO 223 - Parasitology for Health Sciences

BIO 425 - Parasitology

Biology, histopathology and ecology of parasites of African freshwater fishes and other aquatic animals.

Fish health diagnostics, disease risk analysis and biosecurity  for aquaculture.

Aquatic animal diversity and biomonitoring.

Aquatic animal health, ecology, parasitology and ecotoxicology

Mabika N, Barson M, van Dyk C, Avenant-Oldewage A. 2019. Seasonal occurrence of metazoan parasites in Tigerfish, Hydrocynus vittatus Castelnau, 1861 (Characiformes: Alestidae) from Sanyati Basin, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Ondersterpoort J. Vet. Res. 86: 1-8. 

Barson M, Mabika N, Cooper RG, Nhiwatiwa T. 2014. Histopathology and helminth parasites of African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) in relation to heavy metal pollution in a subtropical river system. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 30: 923-929.   

Barson M, Vanhove MPM, Prikrylova I, Huyse T. 2010. Parasite hybridization in African Macrogyrodactylus spp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) signals historical host distribution. Parasitol. 137: 1585-1595.