Violence doesn't solve anything!

Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!

In this very edition, there is an article on three men who gang raped a woman the whole night and killed her thereafter! A soldier whose throat was slit by unknown assailant(s), a man who stabbed three men in a nightclub and ran away from the scene. Has life become that cheap, or has something changed in our values and traditions? There is a Setswana saying, ‘Ntwa kgolo ke ya molomo’, loosely translated as "communication is the best way to resolve conflicts".