Dingake: Humble African legal giant
Friday, December 06, 2019
![Everyone's Judge: Dingake,a former Judge of the high court of Botswana and now with the Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea](https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://www.mmegi.bw/uploads/imported_images/2019/december/06/phptA6drj.jpg&w=400&q=72&f=jpg&t=1)
Everyone's Judge: Dingake,a former Judge of the high court of Botswana and now with the Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea
The books are: In Pursuit of Justice, Judges, and Towards A People’s Constitution for Botswana. Chief Justice Salika, Chief Justice of the Supreme and National Courts of PNG and Professor Crawford, Dean of Law at James Cook University, in Australia and Emeritus Professor of Law, Yash, Ghai, University of Hongkong, reviewed the books.
Recently I bought my own copies at Exclusive Books, OR International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa. The most recent review of his latest book: Towards A People’s Constitution for Botswana, with a foreword by Professor Emeritus Yash Ghai, one of the foremost Kenyan scholars in Constitutional Law, and former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, in Cambodia on Human Rights, inspired my article.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...