Confessions from my first spa treatment
Friday, February 20, 2015

Spar treat: Charles on the massage level.
“Welcome to Nomad African Spa. Please proceed to the changing room and take off all your clothes. Put on the gown and flip-flops in there,” said Mariane Akwenye, the spa owner.
She said it with a slight naughty girl smile on her face. But instead it sent bouts of jitters through me.
Sadly, the country seems not to have proper tools and the extent to which women and the girl-child are being abused is not adequately measured.Almost every week there are reports of women being attacked by their significant others and while men are attacked as well, women seem to be more on the receiving end.On May 24, 2023 news broke that a woman who was receiving support from the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention Centre in Gaborone, was...