The art of constitution making an over view

It is a great honour and privilege to engage with members of the labour movement and civil society on the issue of constitution making or constitutional review.

Constitution making refers to the process of making a new constitution or reviewing an old one that also includes the design and content of a new or amended constitution. Questions of constitutional design entails questions such as: what kind of state do we want to create? What form of government do we want? What kind of relationship between the government and the people do we want?

Constitution making is on the main an art rather than a science, in that it is usually a subjective exercise. Constitutional making is also an art because it involves the application of comparative constitutional law.

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The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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