Karl Offmann (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Karl Auguste Offmann (born 25 November 1940) is a Mauritian politician. After two of his successive predecessors had resigned over their refusal to sign a controversial anti-terrorism bill, the parliament elected Offmann to serve as President of Mauritius on 25 February 2002. He served in the post until Paul B renger became his prime minister and nominated a new president on 1 October 2003. Because secondary education was not free, his family could not afford to meet the costs of education for seven children. Thus, when he completed primary school education, he chose to compete for a scholarship in order to pursue his studies further. He won the government-awarded mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship Scholarship in 1956 and secured a seat at the prestigious Royal College School and the Technical College of Floreal.