AFP - In a landmark ruling Botswana’s High Court on Friday gave women inheritance rights for the first time, up-ending a male-dominated system that had prevailed in the thriving African nation. Announcing the ruling, Justice Key Dingake said, “It seems to me that the time has now arisen for the justices…
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