'Botswana constitution was drafted under scepticism'

South Africa's former Chief Justice, Sandile Ngcobo, says socio-economic rights should be entrenched in the Constitution of Botswana to compel the government to provide citizens with basic needs.

Speaking at the Constitutional Reform Conference in Gaborone last Friday, Ngcobo said after being subjected to inequalities created and perpetrated by successive apartheid governments, South Africans finally came up with a constitution whose goal was to heal the wounds of the past and unify the nation.