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IN GILLETT
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Hr Gillett was born on 24 September 1938. He is married with two
He was educated at St Pauls School, London, and won an open scholarship in History to Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has a A degree in History and law. He was onlisted for National Service from 1956 to 1958, Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry and was seconded to the Nigerian Army.
From 1961 to 1962 he was appointed by the Secretary of State as a Plebiscite Supervisory officer, Southern Caneroons, and was responsible for organising registration and voting in an electoral district and for publicising the terms of the plebiscite. In 1962 he was appointed as Assistant Principal Ministry of Labour, resigning in 1965 to join the Bechuanaland/Botswana, Government as an Administrative Officer under OSAS terms of employment. He' held the appointments of Assistant Secretary Ministry of Finance for one year, District Commissioner for three years of Ghanzi, the remotest and largest district in Botswana covering 44,000 square miles and then three years as District officer, Shashe Complex and Township and Executive officer Selebe-Pikwe. In these joint capacities he was the Government senior field representative on a £100 million IBRD financed project including two copper nickel mines, a major power station, a dam, 60 miles of pipeline, 40 miles road and rail and a township of 25,000 people.
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Mr Gillett's services with Botswana ended in 1972 and from 1973 to 1975 he was employed as Chief Research officer with the Commonwealth Secretariat in the Medical Adviser's office. In 1975 he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of Nauru where his services have recently been terminated.
Annual Confidential reports covering his service in Botswana are not available in ODM. A report on Mr Gillett's personal file from Gabrone dated 3 August 1972, describes him as a pleasant person to work with and generally as an Administrator, he had always proved himself very capable, conscientious and ready to accept responsibility. From other papers on the file it is stated that there was a high regard for him during his service in Botswana where he did an excellent job and made a considerable success of co-ordinating and solving all the problems of setting up a new mining town from scratch.
He has produced the following publications:
'Aspects of Administration in Western Botswana' (with A Kuper), African Studies, 29 (3) 1970;
'Survival of Chieftaincy in Botsvan
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African Affairs, 72, 287, 1973.
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