Khama freezes Parliament
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

President Khama: The Attorney General's submission says proceeding would cause a Constitutional crisis PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
The development comes after President Ian Khama effectively froze today’s scheduled opening of Parliament by withholding a proclamation he issues allowing for the swearing in of members and the commencement of sitting.
Khama’s freezing of Parliament has heightened speculation around the identity of his preferred Vice President, whom some critics believe he wants endorsed by a show of hands in order to ensure allegiance among ruling party members. The High Court case is the latest round of a battle in which Khama wants the Standing Orders changed back to a vote “by show of hands”. Legislators changed the standing order to secret ballot just before dissolution in August, but Khama’s lawyers, Collins Newman and Company, hit back recently.
Hurt as he may have been, former president Ian Khama, Sir Seretse’s senior son who was given an opportunity to speak on behalf of the Seretse family, couldn’t mince his words as he took advantage to shred his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi to pieces.He, however, did not clearly mention names but he referred to Masisi as the leader of a political party that was founded amongst others by his father.He would also address him as the former State...