ABSTRACT

On 25 April 2013, President Ian Khama (2008–2018) announced a controversial quota system for tribal land allocation in the peri-urban villages in Botswana at a kgotla (village) meeting in Bokaa in the Kgatleng District. Khama informed the villagers that under the land quota system, ‘preferential treatment’ would be given to the ‘locals’ when allocating tribal land in the peri-urban villages. Botswana’s parliament had rejected a motion on the same quota system tabled by an independent member of parliament. It also rejected attempts to bring it back through drafts of the land policy in 2013 and 2014, and the land policy in July 2015. President Khama invoked his executive powers in late 2015 to have it implemented. This policy is inconsistent with the Tribal Land Act and the Constitution of Botswana, and undermined Botswana’s Vision 2016. However, putting the law aside, it should be viewed from a social justice perspective.

摘要

在2013年4月25日，总统伊恩·卡马（2008- 2018年）公布在博茨瓦纳的城郊村庄部落的土地分配有争议的配额制度在kgotla（村）在 Kgatlen 区的 Bokaa 举行会议。卡马告诉村民，在土地配额制度下，在城郊村庄分配部落土地时，“当地人”会得到“优待”。博茨瓦纳议会否决了一位独立议员提出的关于配额制度的动议。它还拒绝了通过 2013 年和 2014 年的土地政策草案以及 2015 年 7 月的土地政策草案将其恢复的企图。卡马总统在 2015 年底动用了他的行政权力来实施该政策。该政策不符合《部落土地法》和博茨瓦纳宪法，破坏了博茨瓦纳2016年愿景。但抛开法律不谈，应该从社会公正的角度来看待。