A Word Of Encouragement For Aspiring Queens
Monday, July 25, 2016
Miss Botswana Tea Party PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
With just four days to the grand show, Liberty Life hosted a tea party at the Falcon Crest featuring the Top 12 ladies. As it was expected, the place was filled with the tall slim ladies who are aspiring to be crowned the fairest of all ladies in Botswana come Friday. The Top 12 was given a word of encouragement by the winner of Miss Botswana 2006 now motivational speaker, Malebogo Marumoagae. She shared with the ladies amongst them the next Miss Botswana 2016 on her journey during and after winning Miss Botswana all the way to the final stage, at the Miss World.
“It is not easy. But it is a life lesson that no one could ever take away from you,” she said.
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...