Determination and despair in a season of no rain
Friday, January 23, 2015

These are months during which Botswana farmers, most of whom rely on rainfall, expect their crops to be nearing maturity.
With a gloomy forecast as provided by the DMS, it is doubtful if the country will produce a bumper harvest as it did last year.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...