Human beings across racial distributions are inherently weak by nature; this weakness is multifaceted. One of the most ruinous of these weaknesses is the inherent emotional

weakness that manifests itself in the form of anger or provocation. This weakness is so common and natural that it attracts the attention of “draftsmen” of most [...]

The paper is concerned with accommodation under the 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe and other related statutes of the complex interrelationship between protection against child

labour, as a human right, and the expectation under Zimbabwe’s cultural norms and values that children, as part of their upbringing, should work within the family [...]

Nigeria, in line with the requirements of the international public procurement framework-law, the UNCITRAL Model Law, reformed her public procurement system and practice and

institutionalized statutory measures for ensuring good governance in public procurement. [...]

The Nganunu family has lost a loving father, brother and relative. In the former Chief Justice Julian Mukwesu Nganunu, the nation has lost a great jurist and a reformer of

note. In what follows below, I attempt to sketch his contribution to our jurisprudence. [...]

By early 2020 it was almost twenty years since two historical events took place in as far as Botswana’squest for tribal equality is concerned. These two historical events

were the Presidential Commission ofInquiry into Sections 77, 78 and 79 of the country’s Republican Constitution (‘the Balopi Commission’)and the Kamanakao I [...]

On the 22nd August 2014 the High Court delivered yet another ground breaking judgment condemning the government’s health policy that excluded non-citizen inmates from the

Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). The government was ordered to enrol the Applicants and other non-citizen inmates whose CD4 cell count has reached the [...]

The article examines Malawi's law on abortion against certain key principles and values of criminal law. In the final analysis, it finds that the current state of the law has

failed to achieve its avowed policies of protecting women from the dangers of unsafe abortion, and to protect unborn children from unjustifiable destruction. [...]

This article highlights the important role that the judiciary has played in safeguarding Botswana’s constitutional democracy. This role is primarily located in and can be

discerned from the courts’ decisions as well as the legal framework establishing the judiciary. [...]

The recent judgment of Pickering J in PE v Ikwezi Municipality has brought to the fore the inherent difficulties of adjudicating the issues of sexual harassment at the workplace

on the one hand, and the imposition of liability on the employer arising from the conduct of one of its employees on the other. [...]

The objective of this article is to interrogate and assess the development and application of the principle of the best interests of the child in Botswana. After a brief discussion

of the principle at the international and regional levels, the article will then assess how courts in Botswana have applied this principle in various aspects of private [...]