It Cannot Be That Simple :: Mmegi Online

There were two interesting reports about land in the last week. First came Bashi Letsididi�s �Botswana Was Essentially Created for Whites� in the Sunday Standard, which was a summary of the main conclusions in a paper titled �Conditional on a Bill of Rights�:

Race and Human Rights in the Constitution of Botswana, 1960-66” by an Australian academic, Dr. James Kirby. Could it buttress this title to note that two of the first three people to obtain citizenship were white, namely Ruth Khama and George Sim!

The other came in a report in the Guardian titled ‘MP Lelatisitswe proposes that unused land be taxed’, a suggestion which Minister Matambo apparently described as ‘brilliant’. Note that the conjunction of these two sets of observation demonstrates that the land issue, described by Kirby as it was 50 years ago, still remains unresolved.

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It Cannot Be That Simple

There were two interesting reports about land in the last week. First came Bashi Letsididi�s �Botswana Was Essentially Created for Whites� in the Sunday Standard, which was a summary of the main conclusions in a paper titled �Conditional on a Bill of Rights�:

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