For quite sometime, the public has been debating the spate of extra-judicial floggings in Mochudi ostensibly carried out by some members of a regiment that recently graduated from initiation. While the public has been debating this polarising subject and in the process adding to the confusion, the Attorney General has been quiet perhaps watching from the sidelines. Some felt that there is nothing wrong with the floggings especially when they have been sanctioned by a higher tribal authority. Others felt that the whole thing is out of step with the constitution. It took more than a month before the public's lawyer, the Attorney General could speak on the matter. She has spoken but not in many words. But importantly she has said the floggings are wrong.
Matters came to a head when a 56-year-old man was publicly flogged either for contempt of authority or stealing or both. There was an uproar from some members of the public that an elderly man was flogged no matter what the circumstances were.
