A rape victim narrates her ordeal

"I came to Gaborone to look for a job leaving my parents who were working as teachers in Francistown. I came to stay with my grandparents'. My grandparents have since passed on, but each of their children -my mother's siblings, including her, have a house of their own in the yard - it's a big yard, just so that when things don't work out wherever they are, they can always have a place to sleep. So I occupied my mother's house, a little away, not too far though from the main house." That decision would forever change Tsaone's life.

Having grown up in the home where she now stayed after a four-year absence, she knew just about everyone of her neighbours. She also knew - or believed, that she was safe at home. Indeed she had heard on one or two occasions about some petty robberies where a cellphone or a handbag was snatched from someone in the neighbourhood. A few break-ins had also been reported....but, never anything like what was about to happen to her on that fateful night.