Inside the surge in Gender Based Violence

Growing vice: Gender-Based Violence cases are again hitting the headlines PIC: NKAFU.ORG
Growing vice: Gender-Based Violence cases are again hitting the headlines PIC: NKAFU.ORG

About three in five women in Botswana are victims to violence, making the country a breeding ground for gender-linked hate crimes. Week in week out blood spills across “peaceful” Botswana. Mmegi Staff Writer, TIMOTHY LEWANIKA, writes on the latest surge

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.

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