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Let’s fight GBV as a collective

Monday, June 23, 2025 | 110 Views |

Time has come to put all our hands on deck and fight the fretting gender-based violence (GBV) scourge as a nation. We have now lost count of corpses that are incessantly recovered blood-soaked from murder scenes.

Botswana for the longest time was known for her virulent peace with family being an enviable institution.

As the media, we are also scared to be incessantly reporting on these bloody scenes where women are brutally murdered and worse, sometimes in front of their children and loved ones. Yes, we have reported cases where men were also brutally murdered by their loved ones, but such cases are a drop in the ocean.

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Let’s fight GBV as a collective

Time has come to put all our hands on deck and fight the fretting gender-based violence (GBV) scourge as a nation. We have now lost count of corpses that are incessantly recovered blood-soaked from murder scenes.