Where are the Non-fiction Books?
Friday, July 10, 2015
Books about the trial. Books about Reeva Steenkamp’s life and her untimely end.
I know for a fact at least three of these books, on which friends of mine worked, that were commissioned by publishers and were being written during the trial with a mad dash as soon as the sentence was handed down to get the book to the printers and into the shops when the interest was still high.
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...