Combating corruption in Botswana: Regional role model or deviant case?

Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 117-134

  Theobald, Robin ^a   Williams, Robert ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 0033406018     PISSN: 03063631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14662049908447799     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. According to the 1998 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TICPI), Cameroon is ranked 85th out of 85 countries included, with Tanzania and Nigeria at 81, Kenya at 74, and Uganda at 73. The TICPI is available at http://www.transparency.de.
2. K. Good, 'Corruption and Mismanagement in Botswana: A Best Case Example?', Journal of Modernfrican Studies, 32, 3 (1994), 499-521; R. Charlton, 'Exploring the Byways of African Political Corruption: Botswana and Deviant Case Analysis', Corruption and Reform 5, 1 (1990), 1-28.
3. K. Good, 'Corruption and Mismanagement in Botswana: A Best Case Example?', Journal of Modernfrican Studies, 32, 3 (1994), 499-521; R. Charlton, 'Exploring the Byways of African Political Corruption: Botswana and Deviant Case Analysis', Corruption and Reform 5, 1 (1990), 1-28.
4. See Good, 'Corruption and Mismanagement in Botswana'.
5. Annual Report 1997, DCEC, Botswana, 8.
6. Ibid., 4, 5.
7. Ibid., 17-19.
8. Ibid., 13.
9. Ibid., 7. See also Annual Report 1996, 11.
10. Ibid., 7. See also Annual Report 1996, 11.
11. Ibid., 11.
12. Annual Report 1997, 6.
13. Annual Report 1996, 9.
14. Corruption and Economic Crime Act, 1994 (Gabarone: Government Printer, 1994), 94-8.
15. Annual Report 1996, 25.
16. Annual Report 1997, 12.
17. See John D. Holm, 'Development, Democracy and Civil Society in Botswana', in Adrian Leftwich (ed.), Democracy and Development (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996), 97-113.
18. See Patrick P. Molutsi and John D. Holm, 'Developing Democracy when Civil Society is Weak: The Case of Botswana', African Affairs, 89, 356 (1990), 323-40.
19. Holm, 'Development, Democracy and Civil Society in Botswana', 102.
20. Ibid., 105.
21. Ibid., 105.
22. See 'BAM Splits', front-page Story in the Botswana Guardian, 23 April 1999.
23. See 'The Gravy Train Stops Here', Botswana Guardian, 4 Dec. 1998.
24. See 'Nkate in the Bull's Eye', Botswana Guardian, 23 April 1999, 4.
25. The Warioba Commission, set up by Tanzania's president at the beginning of 1996, identified 'rampant corruption' in the public service that had escalated at an alarming rate over the past 20 years. Both grand and petty corruption were found to be pervasive afflicting all areas of government. The Warioba Report, Government of Tanzania, 1996.
26. Annual Report 1996, 5; Annual Report 1997, 12.
27. Annual Report 1996, 5; Annual Report 1997, 12.
28. Ibid.