The reports shows that from December 20, 2019 until January 5, 2020, the police recorded 133 rapes as compared to 110 cases registered last year. These cases happened at different entertainment places, according to preliminary investigations. Botswana with a population of about 2, 2 million is a small nation to be afflicted by such alarming rape cases.
The latest statistics reflects that a woman was raped every three hours during time the under review. These were reported cases and there were possibilities that other rape cases were swept under the carpet at family level. Quite clearly, we are a broken society in which husbands rape their wives, grandchildren rape grandmothers, brothers rape sisters and the vicious circle does not end there. Even toddlers are now victims of rape. We are thus a society in which the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah known for their wickedness are mirrored in our every day lives. Perhaps we need fire just like the people of ancient Palestine to be extricated from the sin of rape as a doomed society reminiscent of Sodom and Gomorrah.
