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Darra Hofman
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Shadrack Katuu
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YOU?
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· 2022
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003203155-2
· OA: W4280593057
YOU?
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· 2022
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003203155-2
· OA: W4280593057
significantly mixed.South Africa's law -and thus, the mixed system of civil and common law -was indirectly received into Botswana.The High Commissioners that the British had installed over Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), which were often governed "by extending Proclamations designed for what is now South African to Botswana.The reception of the mixed system came through the High Commissioner's Proclamation of 10 June 1891," (Fombad, 2010, p. 6).These histories mean that, although all three countries have "mixed legal systems," each has developed uniquely.As Fombad explains
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