Western Kgalagadi Cultural returns to lukewarm ambience
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
When the two-day festival started in 2010, it attracted multitudes of tourists and revelers in its first two years. However, in the past recent years the festival hasn’t been doing as well.
Last year, only a handful of residents seemed to be aware of the looming event. The waning popularity has raised questions as to whether it would redeem itself this year.
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...