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• Introduction: Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism
• PART ONE: PUBLIC ETHICS AND LEGAL PLURALISM
• Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village
• Tlholego: Nature, Culture and Destiny
• The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court
• An Unburied Past: Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory
• What's in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts
• PART TWO: LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ETHICS AND PLURALISM
• Divorce as Process, Botswana Style: Customary Courts and Gender Activism
• Adultery as Process, Botswana Style: Gender and Changing Customary Law
• 9. Inheritance as Turmoil: From Citizens' Forum to Magisterial Justice
• 10. A Case of Insult: Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations
• 11. A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment
• 12. Conclusion: Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics.
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This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the 'customary' is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country's past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state's present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.
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• Companies Act 2003
• Companies Regulations 2004
• Botswana Stock Exchange Act 1995
• Botswana Stock Exchange Regulations 1996
• Botswana Stock Exchange Listing Rules
• Income Tax Act 1998
• Insolvency Act (Cap 42:02)
• Collective Investments Undertaking Act 1999
• Collective Investments Undertaking Regulations 2002.
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The enactment of the Companies Act 2003 has transformed companies legislation in Botswana and introduced a completely new corporate culture to the country. This title is a comprehensive distillation of companies legislation in Botswana in one handy volume. It sets out the full text of the Companies Act 2003 and the Companies Regulations; the Botswana Stock Exchange Act 1994 and Regulations; the Botswana Stock Exchange Listing Requirements; the Collective Investment Undertakings Act 1999 as amended and Regulations; the Income Tax Act 1995 as amended, and the Insolvency Act 1929 as amended.
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