A five-year standoff between government and a local community has finally reached a boiling point at the Maun High Court. This time, the conflict is not over land or water, but rather, recognition.
For Munitenge Lawrence Liswani Sinvula, the question is whether he is a chief for a single village or for an entire people. For the government in the distant Gaborone, it is a matter of bureaucratic rectitude, an attempt to correct what it calls a simple clerical mistake.
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