Land needs careful management
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Some of the participants come from as far away as Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, South Africa, and the Asia continent. They have one thing in common – concern over corruption in land allocation.
They spent the rest of yesterday sharing experiences from their countries and trying to find a solution to the land problems. Some of the most important issues they raised were lack of public awareness on what corruption entails, lack of freedom of information law, as well as lack of political will to resolve the problem.
Sadly, the country seems not to have proper tools and the extent to which women and the girl-child are being abused is not adequately measured.Almost every week there are reports of women being attacked by their significant others and while men are attacked as well, women seem to be more on the receiving end.On May 24, 2023 news broke that a woman who was receiving support from the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention Centre in Gaborone, was...