best interests of a childBotswana has a dual legal system, one based on customary law and the other on the received law. This appears clearly from the Constitution that ring-fenced cusNgema, Nqobizwe MveloSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Customary lawliving lawland rightsgender and lawstrategic litigationIn Ramantele vs. Mmusi and others (2013), Botswana's Court of Appeal decided that the family home in Kanye, Botswana belonged to Edith Mmusi and her sisters instead of Mmusi's nephew, Molefi Ramantele. Through an analysis of ...
Children born out of wedlock and their right to inherit from their fathers under customary law in Botswana - Baone Kealeboga & Anor ... On the changes and fate of Liang Shan Yi's customary law in contemporary Process for the preparation of oligonucleotides ...
law codes in which customs occupied an important place were the Code of Hammurabi, the Twelve Commandments, the Salic Law, and the Russkaia Pravda. In such Western European countries as France, customary law was important throughout the feudal period down to the formation of centralized absolute...
For centuries, children born out of wedlock have been subjected to many forms of discrimination under customary law in Botswana. One such example is succession, whereby a child born out of wedlock is prohibited from inheriting from or through its father. This discrimination had adverseimplications...
Customary Law and Chieftaincy in Twenty-First Century Botswana. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 28, 2, pp.215-230.Morapedi, W.G. 2010. "Demise or resilience? Customary law and chieftaincy in twenty-first century Botswana." Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 28(2), 215-...
marital powerbest interests of a childBotswana has a dual legal system, one based on customary law and the other on the received law. This appears clearly from the Constitution that ring-fenced cusNgema, NqobizweSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Part III reviews the experiences of legal dualism in South Africa's neighbors, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Part IV discusses customary law in South Africa. Part V contends that although the unification of laws is a desirable long-term goal for South Africa, at present it is impractical...
Seng, Michael P. "In a Conflict Between Equal Rights for Women and Customary Law, the Botswana Court of Appeal Chooses Equality" (1993), 24 University of Toledo Law Review 563.Seng, MP 1992. `In a Conflict Between Equal Rights for Women and Customary Law, The Botswana Court of Appeal ...
This article analyses a civil law case brought before the court in Botswana in 1987 in which the plaintiff claimed damages against the defendant for injury arising out of the latter's adulterous liaisons with the plaintiff's wife. The pa...