Birth of 20 new constituencies?

No Image

The Member of Parliament for Gaborone Central, Dumelang Saleshando, is preparing to trigger debate in Parliament in the coming weeks on the much-anticipated delimitation exercise, which will be carried out some time this year.

Once complete, the exercise is likely to give birth to between 20 and 25 new constituencies if the quota is to stay at the same figure as in 2002 (25,000) when it was last decided. 

The 2002 Delimitation Commission, which was chaired by the present Chief Justice, Maruping Dibotelo, produced 17 new constituencies in addition to 40 that existed then. It was initially thought there would be 65 constituencies but other factors brought this down to 57.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

Have a Story? Send Us a tip
arrow up