Time to kill the tiger
Thursday, December 01, 2016
From that tragic day in Selebi-Phikwe in 1985 when the first AIDS case was diagnosed in Botswana, the country has become world renowned for its aggressive response to an existential crisis of historic proportions. As the globe and Botswana mark World AIDS Day today, we remember the fear, confusion, stigma, hate, acceptance, determination and the battle the country has waged against the disease since those early days. We salute the many heroes and heroines, many of them late, who defied stigmas and spoke out publicly about their HIV statuses, encouraging many others hiding in the shadows.
We remember the millions of hours public, private and NGO experts spent brainstorming on strategy, which produced the network of initiatives and policies, many of them groundbreaking, that today support the HIV/AIDS response.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...