Challenges of constitutional reform, economic transformation and Covid-19 in Botswana

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2078559

C. J. Makgala, I. S. Malila

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Abstract

SUMMARY Botswana’s much-lauded economic boom was accompanied by a disproportionately powerful presidency, poverty, significant economic inequities, elite corruption and rising unemployment. Mokgweetsi Masisi succeeded Ian Khama as president of the long-ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in 2018. He won the 2019 election on a platform of constitutional reform and economic transformation, but the rift between Masisi and Khama appeared to dissuade Masisi from pursuing the much-touted constitutional reform. Masisi needed the ‘blank cheque constitution’ to deploy the state apparatus in his personal war of attrition with the fearsome Khama. During the Covid-19 outbreak, however, civil society put pressure on Masisi to go beyond idle customary rhetoric and make a commitment to constitutional reform.

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博茨瓦纳宪法改革、经济转型和新冠肺炎带来的挑战

博茨瓦纳备受赞誉的经济繁荣伴随着权力过大的总统、贫困、严重的经济不平等、精英腐败和不断上升的失业率。2018年，莫克维茨·马西西接替伊恩·卡马成为长期执政的博茨瓦纳民主党(BDP)主席。他在宪法改革和经济转型的平台上赢得了2019年的选举，但马西西和卡马之间的分歧似乎阻止了马西西追求备受吹捧的宪法改革。马西西需要“空白支票宪法”来部署国家机器，与可怕的卡马进行消耗战。然而，在新冠肺炎疫情爆发期间，民间社会向马西西施压，要求他放弃无聊的习惯言论，承诺进行宪法改革。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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3.00

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.