Inside the surge in Gender Based Violence
Friday, January 17, 2025 | 2420 Views |
Growing vice: Gender-Based Violence cases are again hitting the headlines PIC: NKAFU.ORG
Can we really proclaim that Botswana is a peaceful country when it is purging itself of human life, clearly undermining that self-proclaimed title?
Over the past festive season, police recorded 298 reported offences against persons, with 181 of them being Gender Based Violence (GBV)-linked crimes. That is 60.7% of total reported crimes being gender based.
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...