BDP�s red berets �cool� brigade
Friday, April 11, 2014
Andy Boatile, BDP Youth League president
Many BDP members were seen at the party’s last weekend special congress doning the red beret with a white jack symbol. Among those sporting the famed headgear were party-hopping MPs Botsalo Ntuane of Gaborone Bonnington South and South East South’s Odirile Motlhale as well as Fidelis Molao of Tonota North. Others were, the chubby BDP Youth League president, Andy Boatile and MacDonald Peloetletse, famed for religious defence of the ruling party radio call-in programmes.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...