Electronic copy of the 1966 Botswana Constitution made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution is provided in PDF and is amended up to 2016. There are chapters on fundamental rights and freedoms, citizenship, and the role of the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary.
Collection of links to Botswana law websites, on WorldLII. Includes Countries sites relating to the Government, Parliament, Case law and Legislation, as well as specific subject sections dealing with Anti-Corruption, Elections and Foreign Investment. A stored search will automatically find everything on WorldLII which mentions Botswana.
This site is maintained by the government of Botswana. It provides basic background information on the nature and organisation of government in the region and an index of all the key government ministries and departments. There is a full text copy of the Constitution and the Laws of Botswana. Also available are brief summaries of the key news stories, a few basic economic statistics and notes on the region for tourists.
The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) is a cooperative legal information initiative led by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) providing access to freely available legal materials from all Commonwealth countries. CommonLII contains over 400 databases providing case law, legislation, treaties and law reform reports from more than 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories.
This is the official website of the Parliament of Botswana. It provides access to basic factual information on the structure and function of the two chambers: the National Assembly and the House of Chiefs. It includes contact addresses.
Online article looking at forced evictions and disability rights in Africa written by Buhle Angelo Dube who is a lecturer at the University of Swaziland's Law Department. The article was published in 2008 (and updated in 2023 by Sibusiso Nhlabatsi) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The first section explains the background to forced evictions and their impact in Africa and focuses on this practice in Ghana, Swaziland and Botswana.
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre began as a joint initiative between the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). It works to foster human rights, democracy, the rule of law and access to justice in the region by means of advocacy, litigation, training and capacity building. The Centre's website has information about its cases, together with reports, briefings, statements, articles and news. The content can be browsed by topic or by country.
Guide to the legal system of Botswana written by Lubabalo Booi, a librarian at the Republic of South Africa Parliament, and updated in 2021 by Charles Manga Fombad, Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria. The guide, which is on New York University's Globalex website, covers Botswana's history and sources of law, including the Constitution, customary law, common law, legislation and judicial precedent. There is information about the court system and the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
