Urgent call: Stop the killing!

Monday, December 05, 2022 | 130 Views |

Over the last few months, this publication and others in the media have carried numerous articles about intimate partner killings which cannot be ignored!

The previous week, we had an article about a police officer shooting his wife, and turning the gun on himself, whilst he died, his wife survived and is still in the hospital.

Sadly that was not the only article we carried on intimate partner killings. There was the Francistown case, where a young woman allegedly stabbed her ‘former boyfriend’ and many others which were reported throughout the week.

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