Can a president be sued?

The newspaper threatened to counter-sue and Khama withdrew the case. However it is in the case that will arise out of the Kalafatis' family efforts to get justice that the theory of immunity is likely to be tested.

One school of thought maintains that a president is totally immune from prosecution on matters relating to his time in office, while others say immunity is limited only to the period of office. The second preposition puts the president, at the end of his term, under threat from cases arising out of his time in office.