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⁷ Published in the Government Gazette Notice No. 414 of 1986. 30 September is Botswana's Independence Day.

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¹⁵ Civil Appeal No. 15/93 (unreported) see Dingake, Administrative law in Botswanda, at 138.

¹⁶ See 12 of the Judgment.

¹⁷ Above, n. 14.

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