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For the first time, married women in Botswana will be able to own land, the president of the South African country has announced.
“Botswana’s 2019 Revised Land Policy now gives married women the right to apply for land,” President Mokgweetsi Masisi tweeted on Thursday, announcing an end to discriminatory treatment under previous legislation.
She added that she encouraged “local and territorial authorities, as well as non-governmental organizations, to intensify campaigns to educate women and orphans about their legally protected rights and offer them legal support to successfully claim their legitimate right to land. “.
Amending land policy in Botswana, a landlocked country bordering South Africa, to end discrimination against married women was one of Masisi’s campaign promises ahead of the October 2019 elections.
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