Khama throttles Parliament

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The High Court has postponed to November 6 an urgent application in which the Attorney General wants amendments to parliamentary Standing Orders that allow for secret ballot voting of the Vice President, declared unconstitutional.

A panel of three judges consisting of Justices Singh Walia, Michael Leburu and Tebogo Tau ordered that the respondents are to file and serve on the applicant their answering affidavits or any other answer to the applicant on or before October 31, 2014.

They also ordered that the applicant should file and serve on the respondents her replying affidavit on or before November 3.

Editor's Comment
Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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