20 Pula

Four signature combinations appear across this series, reflecting genuine personnel changes at the Bank of Botswana over a fifteen-year run — Festus Mogae served as Governor before becoming Vice President and then President of Botswana in 1998, making his appearance on this note an early institutional trace of a significant political career.

The long print run by De La Rue without fundamental redesign was practical rather than negligent; Botswana's currency remained stable and the pula was never subject to the inflationary pressures that forced redesigns elsewhere in the region during the same period.