St. Joseph�s College to host cultural festival
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Dr Vom
St. Joseph’s College Cultural Festival will take place at the College Grounds under the theme ‘Bana ba kgwale, ba bitsana ka melodi’.
The festival coordinator, Tlamelo Letlole, explained that they decided on the theme as an effort to drive the message home that while there are diverse cultural practices, and tribes, ‘all of us are one as Batswana’.
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...