Right to privacy interference ‘permissible’

He said Section 3 of the Constitution provides that every person in Botswana is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, including the right to the protection of their home and other property, whatever their race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed, or sex, albeit subject to the rights and freedoms of others and the public interest.

In his report commissioned by the Media Policy and Democracy Project and titled ‘Public Space Surveillance and Protection of Privacy: The Case of Botswana’, Balule looks at the nature and the protection of privacy.