Gaborone gets High Court

The Minister for Justice, Defence and Security, Dikgakgamatso Seretse told Parliament this week that the P80 million will be used for the design and construction of the facilities.

The Court of Appeal and the High Court are in Lobatse, the country's judicial capital since independence. There is another High Court in Francistown but so far the capital Gaborone has only magistrates' courts and the Industrial Court. The construction of a High Court and a Court of Appeal in Gaborone has raised suspicions in Parliament that Lobatse will lose its status as the judicial capital. But Seretse assured the MPs that the two facilities being built in Gaborone are just divisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal.