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Title: | Navigating the 'Neutral' State: 'Minority' Rights in Botswana |
Author: | Solway, Jacqueline S. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 711-729 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | minority groups group rights Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/823348 |
Abstract: | This article analyses the rise of minority struggles in Botswana. It traces the development of these struggles from the relatively isolated and muted complaints of non-Tswana to the organized, sophisticated and effective political movements that are seeking to render the State more inclusive. This transition, which has occurred over approximately one decade, culminated in a Presidential Commission and a White Paper proposing constitutional change as well as the redrawing and renaming of internal geographical units. In creating effective institutions, the Tswana State produced the conditions for its own challenge and provided an orderly means by which dissenting parties could proceed. The various ways minority groups have agitated for change are presented and case material is provided. Notes, ref., sum. |