�To Lose One Parent Maybe A Misfortune; To Lose Both Looks Like Carelessness�

The issues, the concerns and the questions ‘come crowding in. There seems to be no let- up. The editor of the Sunday Standard Outsa Mokone is jailed overnight, supposedly because of possible charges relating to seedition- but was he ever charged? Sedition! There have been instances in the past when sedition related to the penal code has come to the fore.

Sam Mbaiwa was one such victim but remember also Kenneth Koma, Pretty Molefe, Henderson Tlhoiwe  and not least, the cruel treatment of Caitlin Davies editor of the  Okavango Observer who was charged because she had carried a report about a teenage gang  which was terrorising the Maun community.

Inredible; And then there was  the seizure by the police of the book written by Rothstein ( of the Ministry of Agriculture) who was revealing all about some long forgotten issue. And then we come to the unprecedented application for asylum in South Africa of a senior newspaper reporter, the death, accidental or otherwise of an opposition activist, and the beating up and  torture of another.

Editor's Comment
Justice served, but healing must follow

His horrific actions, betraying the trust placed in him to protect children have rightly been met with the full force of the law. Whilst we commend the court’s decision, this case forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about safeguarding our children and the lifelong scars such abuse leaves.Magistrate Kefilwe Resheng’s firm sentencing sends a powerful message that those who harm children will face severe consequences. Her words rightly...

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