Former High Court Judge slams govt
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
He was addressing crowds, in a speech peppered with words like "deliberate" and "contempt" (on the part of government) at the annual Domboshaba cultural festival on October 1.
Mosojane was certainly in no mood to celebrate when he said "the constitution of Botswana was deliberately and cynically crafted to treat Non-Tswana ethnicities with blatant partiality in their own land". Mosojane said the provision of making Setswana the national language and the provision of listing only Tswana-speaking tribes as the principal tribes, without saying who the minor tribes were, is a further testimony to the lopsided nature of the constitution.
Figures released by the country’s electoral management body have shown that a total of 1, 037, 684 people have registered to vote.However, eligible voters could be discouraged by events leading to the voting day like poor execution of advance voting amid talks that the elections could be unfair.There have also been threats by certain opposition politicians that shall the elections not be free and fair, they will halt them.Despite these...