Can common sense ever prevail
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
I am the barrister who acted for the Bushmen in the High Court,and have studied the Act with some care. I can assure your readers that the Minister is quite mistaken, as is apparent from a brief review of the facts:
First, although the Act has been the law of Botswana since 1992, the Department of Wiildlife issued hunting licences for the CKGR until December 2001. Is the Minister suggesting that the Department of Wildlife National Parks was alllowed to committ repeated breaches of the Act for nine years after it had been introduced? This would have been a truly remarkable state of affairs, displaying a total contempt for the will of the National Assembly.
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