Qualifications for membership of Ntlo ya Dikgosi

(1) A person shall be qualified to be appointed under section 77(1)( b ) as a Member of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi if he or she— ( a ) is a citizen of Botswana; and ( b ) has attained the age of 21 years. (2) No person shall be qualified to be appointed, selected or designated as a Member of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi if he or she— ( a ) is, by virtue of his or her own act, under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state; ( b ) has been declared insolvent or adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in any part of the Commonwealth or any country with a comparable legal system and has not been discharged, or has made a composition with his or her creditors and has not paid his or her debts in full; ( c ) is certified insane or otherwise adjudged or declared to be of unsound mind under any law for the time being in force in Botswana; ( d ) subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed by Parliament, holds any public office, or is acting in any public office by virtue of a contract of service expressed to continue for a period exceeding six months; ( e ) is under sentence of death imposed on him or her by a court in any part of the Commonwealth or any country with a comparable legal system, or is under a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) exceeding six months imposed on him or her by such a court or substituted by a competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him or her by such a court; ( f ) holds, or is acting in, any office the functions of which involve any responsibility for, or in connection with, the conduct of any elections to the National Assembly or the compilation or revision of any electoral register for the purposes of such elections; or ( g ) is disqualified for election to the National Assembly by virtue of provision made in pursuance of section 62(2) of this Constitution. (3) For the purposes of this section, two or more terms of imprisonment that are required to be served consecutively shall be regarded as a single term of imprisonment for the aggregate period of those terms, and no account shall be taken of a sentence of imprisonment imposed as an alternative to or in default of the payment of a fine. (4) A Member of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi shall not, while he or she is such a Member, participate in party politics, but active participation in politics prior to being a Member of the Ntlo ya Dikgosi shall not bar any person from being such a Member.