With the crop of legislators we have, clashes between law and politics will never end

We however, with the benefit of hindsight and recent history, have come to accept that with the crop of legislators we have, laws are no longer passed for the good governance and peace of the republic, but rather for political survival and expediency.

One may recall that immediately after the 2014 General Elections, Parliament was brought down to a standstill as the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) coerced the Attorney General to strike certain portions of the Parliamentary Standing Orders on account of the standing orders being unconstitutional. The fight by the BDP and the President was not to seek an order that would invariably lead to Parliament promulgating laws for the good of the country. It was a political war of survival and that brought politics into collision cause with the Courts and law. An unenviable battle, I must say.