Women urged to vote women

Speaking during the opening of a two-day workshop for Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA) women commissioners held in Gaborone yesterday, Kruger urged women to be responsible for increasing their numbers in politics. "Women are the majority in everything.  We are the cornerstones of our families, of the church and of our economy," she said.

Kruger said women should elevate each other rather than looking down upon their fellow females. "If you belittle another woman, then you are belittling yourself as a woman," she said.  She said women politicians have the weakness of forgetting about other women on the ground once they are voted into office.