| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Thapelo Matsheka | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Minister of Finance and Economic Development |
| President: | Mokgweetsi Masisi |
| Term Start: | 6 November 2019 |
| Term End: | April 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Kenneth Matambo |
| Successor: | Peggy Serame |
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly for Lobatse |
| Term Start1: | 5 November 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Sadique Kebonang |
| Birthname: | Thapelo Matsheka |
| Nationality: | Motswana |
| Party: | Botswana Democratic Party |
| Profession: | Economist Politician |
Thapelo Matsheka is a Motswana politician and economist who served as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development from November 2019 to April 2021. He was elected as the Member of the National Assembly for Lobatse in October 2019. He is a member of the Botswana Democratic Party. Matsheka is the former Managing Director of Fiducia Services.[1]
Matsheka holds a Phd in economics from the University of Kent.[2] He was the Chief Executive Officer of Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency, the government’s entrepreneurship scheme, from 2003 to 2010.[3] [4] He then worked for AON Botswana before resigning to form Fiducia Services in August 2017.[5]
For the 2019 general election, Matsheka was the Botswana Democratic Party's parliamentary candidate for Lobatse.[6] He was elected and succeeded Sadique Kebonang.[7] President Mokgweetsi Masisi appointed him as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development on 6 November 2019, and he took office on the same day.[8] [9] He delivered his first budget speech in February 2020.[10] He was replaced as minister responsible for public finance in April 2021.[11]