New dawn for Magistrates

Rannowane recently attended a judicial forum at the invitation of African Institute of International Law (AIIL) and the African Foundation for International Law (AFIL) in Netherlands. The forum was aimed at providing avenue for African Chief Justices as well as to “increase the connection between international judicial and legal institutions with Justices from Africa.”

Participating Chief Justices were from Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zanzibar. “During the course of the visit I engaged on the sideline with the secretary-general (of the Academy), to explore possibility of having young Batswana judicial officers such as magistrates to do attachments or internship at the Hague Academy of International Law at subsidised prices or for short attachment to the International Court of Justice ,” the CJ told Mmegi Online. From the visit, the CJ says he learned a lot from the interactions and intends to use the knowledge to rectify some of the instruments they were lacking behind in Botswana, such as the child abduction convection and access to justice in the country. The Hague Academy of International Law is a centre for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands and has produced some of the finest legal and judicial brains in the world.