ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on actual cases described in ethnographic and comparative contexts to tell the story of customary law and the seeking of justice in customary courts in Botswana and, more widely, in Africa. It explores factional politics in small villages with the mobilisation for judicial review against top-down policy decisions. The book shows how blind probes recur repeatedly under conditions of uncertainty, without necessarily leading to any decisive conclusion in an encounter. It considers the notion of tlholego, a Tswana concept encapsulating both nature and culture, and having broad meanings of history, ancestrality, and God's creations. These notions are intermeshed and inseparable, just as the lives of many of the villagers are, in multiplex relations, inextricably interlinked with each other, past and future.
