{"id":209420,"date":"2025-10-10T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-judiciary-not-immune-to-predatory-non-state-actors\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:53","slug":"botswana-judiciary-not-immune-to-predatory-non-state-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-judiciary-not-immune-to-predatory-non-state-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Judiciary Not Immune to Predatory Non-State Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gaborone \u2014 The judiciary is not immune to the predatory interests of non-state actors and thus must guard against all forms of pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">President Advocate Duma Boko said this during the Southern and Eastern Africa Chief Justices&#8217; Forum annual conference and general meeting in Gaborone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">President Boko said to safeguard the rule of law, discourse on judicial independence was often framed in a binary manner, with the judiciary on one hand and the state on the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The judiciary is not immune to the predatory interests of non-state actors and thus must guard against all forms of pressure. President Advocate Duma Boko said this during the Southern and Eastern Africa Chief Justices&#8217; Forum annual conference and general meeting in Gaborone on Wednesday. President Boko said to safeguard the rule of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[11890,258,256,4718,2462,12592,9830,257,32098,44774,254],"class_list":["post-209420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-actors","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-immune","tag-judiciary","tag-news","tag-nonstate","tag-predatory","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}