Automatic Succession: It is a seven-day presidency - Period

Friday, April 06, 2018

President Mokgweetsi Masisi after being sworn in by Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo on April 1. PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

We are at the crossroads. We can gamble with the issue and risk national embarrassment, or we can put our heads together and find a solution while we still can. Thank God, it is not too late. Yet, time is running out. Fast.

My learned friend, Tshiamo Rantao raised the issue of automatic succession on Facebook yesterday.

To be sure, he was echoing the views of others before and many now. Credit to all of them; Counsels Molake and Dick Bayford, amongst others, and thanks to Goemeone Mogomotsi for the reminder. But the issue is as new or as old now as it was then. And there is no running away from it. I reproduce Tshiamo Rantao’s post;

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