Consider a ban on the pit bull

The dog – one of two of the same breed - is reported to have scaled the owner’s fence and advanced towards the child. No, it was not wagging its tail, but it growled aggressively whenever the child tried to back away.

Mercifully the child had the sense to sit as the dog sat, waiting for him to move. Nonchalantly it waited, despite the din caused by worried family and neighbours as someone scurried to phone its owner who was said to be at work in Gaborone – some 30-something kilometres away.