No Internet access in most households, survey shows

More than 360,000 households in Botswana are still not connected to either fixed or mobile Internet, Statistics Botswana (SB) has said.

This constitutes 59.4% of all the 610,000 households in Botswana.

 In its latest ICT household survey for 2014, the national data office said the highest percentage, 15.1% of those unconnected were in the Kweneng East District followed by Gaborone with 10.4% of households with no Internet access. Central Tutume was next with 7.6% of all households with no Internet access.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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