Time up! Botswana constitutional amendment due!!

Most African countries that gained independence in the 1960s have amended their Constitutions. Many were ‘one-party’ States,  they have moved on to multi-party democracy; some who had presidency-for-life provisions, have now  fixed two-terms; the Republic of South Africa (RSA) the latest kid-on-the-block, has hit the ground running, with Chapter 9 Institutions innovation, to enhance democracy, like all countries that swear by democratic dispensation ought to do.

One wonders where the RSA would be had she not created the Chapter 9 clause? Could she have survived the Nkadla and the State of Capture ructions? RSA is reeling under semi-chaotic political turmoil which without the Chapter 9 Institutions’ provision, she might have been viewed as a pariah, a rogue, a failed State, anything but a democratic State.