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Title: | British Parliamentary Procedure as Applied in Botswana, Bophuthatswana and Transkei |
Author: | Bekker, J.C. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of African Affairs |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 156-166 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Bophuthatswana South Africa Transkei |
Subjects: | parliament Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government |
Abstract: | Parliaments based on the Westminster model have been established in Botswana, Bophuthatswana and Transkei. The author shows how these African Parliaments followed the British model each in its own way, or deviated from it, sometimes without apparent reason. In some respects the departure from the Westminster style is irrelevant, but in certain cases the wisdom of deviating is questionable. Parliament should, for example, in principle be financially independent so as to maintain its supremacy, but in Bophuthatswana and Transkei, the Parliaments are financially subordinate to the Executive. Furthermore, all three Assemblies depend on the Executive for administrative assistance and advice, in contradistinction to Britain and the Republic of South Africa where parliamentary staff are not civil servants, serving the government, but owe allegiance to the Houses of Parliament only. Ref. |