'Dithunya Tsa Rona' Docudrama Battles Child Abuse

This docudrama came at the right time as this is Youth Month and recently, Botswana joined South Africa in commemorating the 30th annual International Day of the African Child, which is commemorated on June 16 annually. The campaign was created in 1991 to honour people who participated in the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976, in which hundreds of students were injured and killed while protesting racial discrimination and injustice in the South African school system.

In a quest to commemorate that significant campaign, SSI premiered live streaming of the docudrama recently. The docudrama film is about a social worker investigating an increase in teenage pregnancies in a community in Botswana. Teenage pregnancy had and remains a big problem in the country where many young girls drop out of school due to pregnancy.