Magistrates Must Keep Time

Quiet clearly, the courts and the prisons in Botswana are overpopulated with people seeking recourse to justice.

But he should be the very one to ensure that the juridical system operates properly, smoothly and judiciously.
Not so long ago, the judges were pleading for better remuneration, but they said very little about how an improvement in their wages would facilitate an improvement to the juridical system.


The fact of the matter is that it takes ages to get matters before the court.  That has imponderable implications for the majority of Batswana who are poor.They have to literally buy the services of lawyers who have an inordinate appetite for money, and a lesser concern for the carrying out of justice.

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