Bakalanga call for Bukalanga Tribal Territory
Friday, May 24, 2024 | 1010 Views |
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Francistown
1). Honourable Speaker, we are thankful for being given this opportunity to address this august Assembly as Bakalanga for a fair constitutional dispensation.
2). We are here today because when an announcement was made in 2019 that there would be a comprehensive constitutional review, we started engaging to crystallise what we wanted to achieve out of this exercise. Our grievances have always been there, but we have always held out hoping that something like this would come along. So, we had to grasp this with both hands.
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