caa a22 4500 386371210 CHVBK 20180307111959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002185530000797X doi S002185530000797X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002185530000797X Frimpong Kwame A Review of Rent Control Legislation in Botswana [Elektronische Daten] [Kwame Frimpong] The subject "Rent Control” is very wide as it covers many areas. It may deal with the control of rents in respect of agricultural land, industrial property or it may be limited either to dwelling houses or commercial buildings. For the purposes of this paper, "rent control” focuses on the dwelling or residential houses and commercial buildings in the country. The obvious reason is that the current rent control legislation is limited to those properties because of the apparent high level of the rents they attract. The use of legislation to control rents of premises is a product of the twentieth century. In England, for instance, the first attempt to control rents was in 1915, during the First World War. It is interesting to note that the first legislation on rent control in England coincided with the outbreak of the First World War. Rent controls in Nigeria and Ghana were also influenced by the First and Second World Wars respectively. The reason for the introduction of rent control legislation to coincide with world wars is not hard to find. Wars generally create shortages of a number of essential goods because many resources are diverted to the production of armaments and the labour force is channelled to the battle front. Housing is one of the needs of mankind which usually becomes scarce as a result of the outbreak of a major war like the last two World Wars. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 45-54 0021-8553 33:1<45 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185530000797X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185530000797X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Frimpong Kwame NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 45-54 0021-8553 33:1<45 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge