Former High Court Judge slams govt

Milidzanani Dance Group perfoming Mokomoto dance during the 2016 Domboshaba Cultural Festival. PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Milidzanani Dance Group perfoming Mokomoto dance during the 2016 Domboshaba Cultural Festival. PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

DOMBOSHABA: Former Francistown High Court Judge, Justice John Zwibili Mosojane has dampened the BOT50 euphoria when he startlingly slammed the government for continually treating non-Tswana speaking ethnic groups as second class citizens.

He was addressing crowds, in a speech peppered with words like "deliberate" and "contempt" (on the part of government)  at the annual Domboshaba cultural festival on October 1.

Mosojane was certainly in no mood to celebrate when he said "the constitution of Botswana was deliberately and cynically crafted to treat Non-Tswana ethnicities with blatant partiality in their own land". Mosojane said the provision of making Setswana the national language and the provision of listing only Tswana-speaking tribes as the principal tribes, without saying who the minor tribes were, is a further testimony to the lopsided nature of the constitution.

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