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Fighting stock theft should be collective effort

The rearing of livestock has and will always be an integral part of the life of a Motswana and major contributor to the rural economies. As such, every household keeps cattle, goats or sheep whether in a subsistence form at a cattlepost, lands or commercially in a ranch.

Within this form of farming come challenges such as drought, diseases and stock theft amongst others.

From these difficulties, stock theft is becoming a bane to pastoralists either those who rear cattle or small stock.

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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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