The ‘burden of expectation’ and political instability: A case for direct election of the President of Botswana

Ookeditse, Lawrence

doi:10.1080/10246029.2020.1856695

African Security Review

2020

DOI: 10.1080/10246029.2020.1856695

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The ‘burden of expectation’ and political instability: A case for direct election of the President of Botswana

Lawrence Ookeditse¹

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The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa

Brett

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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Political scientists analyze the global rise of judicial appointment commissions as a response to judicialized politics. They argue that appointment processes have formalized to include more constituencies now affected by judicial decisions. This article presents evidence from Southern Africa confounding their expectations. In this region, formalization has social as well as political origins. Over the last two decades, the senior judiciary has suddenly become subject to the same demands for organizational accountability and descriptive representation that sociologists of other professions have been documenting for decades. Throughout the region, therefore, it has become increasingly difficult to defend opaque practices inherited from British (and South African) colonialism. Twenty years ago, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland/Eswatini all recruited most appellate judges from abroad through informal channels. In every country, this system has come under pressure from a variety of local sources. Yet those demanding reform have always been able to mobilize new international orthodoxies that require the judiciary to represent its society and make itself accountable to profane, external audiences. These new orthodoxies have acquired an unusual power in Southern Africa thanks to their embodiment in South Africa’s own post-apartheid transition, and long-standing moral imperatives to “localize” senior expatriate positions in postcolonial states.

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The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa

Brett

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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The conflict between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor, Ian Khama, in Botswana

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Tumediso

2024

The Round Table

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Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana

Makgala

Malila

2022

Review of African Political Economy

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SUMMARY Botswana’s much-lauded economic boom was accompanied by a disproportionately powerful presidency, poverty, significant economic inequities, elite corruption and rising unemployment. Mokgweetsi Masisi succeeded Ian Khama as president of the long-ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in 2018. He won the 2019 election on a platform of constitutional reform and economic transformation, but the rift between Masisi and Khama appeared to dissuade Masisi from pursuing the much-touted constitutional reform. Masisi needed the ‘blank cheque constitution’ to deploy the state apparatus in his personal war of attrition with the fearsome Khama. During the Covid-19 outbreak, however, civil society put pressure on Masisi to go beyond idle customary rhetoric and make a commitment to constitutional reform.

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The ‘burden of expectation’ and political instability: A case for direct election of the President of Botswana

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa

The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa

The conflict between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor, Ian Khama, in Botswana

Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana

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