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Cancer Association Botswana PIC: KABO MPAETONA
Cancer Association Botswana PIC: KABO MPAETONA

Unthinkable as it sounds, men can and are developing breast cancer as witnessed by rising cases in Botswana. As Mmegi wraps up its coverage of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, looks beyond the male ego and discovers that with cancer, ignorance is anything but bliss

Whether he is willing to admit it or not, every man for most of his life blissfully drifts about with little thought about his own mortality.

Coupled with the masculine macho, both instinctive and taught socially, men are far less likely to concern themselves with their long-term health or the effects thereupon of their habits today.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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