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Title:The role of the Public and Judicial Service Commissions in Botswana
Author:Solo, KholisaniISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:Lesotho Law Journal: A Journal of Law and Development
Volume:13
Issue:1-2
Pages:69-99
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
Botswana
Subjects:dismissal
civil service
civil servants
judges
Abstract:This article examines the Public Service Commission and the Judicial Service Commission in Botswana, in particular their role and their impact on security of employment. It concludes that the present Public Service Commission in Botswana has been stripped of most of its powers. It can no longer appoint or recruit personnel into the public service. It has no power to discipline or remove a public servant from office. All matters that are crucial to the career of a public servant have been relocated in the Director of Public Service Management, who cannot realistically be seen as impartial and independent. The Judicial Service Commission in Botswana appears to be a powerful institution. However, while judges enjoy considerable security of tenure, their more junior officers (magistrates) have limited protection. A comparison of the Botswanan institutions with their counterparts in South Africa suggests lessons for improvement. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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