This piece is a furtherance of the former. It will also touch on some of the legal solutions accessible to casualties of emotional abuse and gender-based violence in general under the Domestic Violence Act Cap 28: 05. Forgive your partner -...
Her words are below: Job was hit by a “personal pandemic!” There are many lessons we can learn from his life and how he responded to his own “personal pandemic!” In today’s article I want to focus on two responses-grief...
It is all, understandable. It is surely, not one of the conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to kill all of Africa by instrument of a COVID19 vaccine, which I think, is a load of compost. Frankly, I doubt it has anything to do with politics,...
The first black US congresswoman. Asserting she didn’t serve to obsequiously toady to an invasive cartel of puppet masters, the inimitable non-anodynic senator stridently averred, “I didn’t come to the Congress to behave myself and...
E re re ntse re tswela pele go tle le lengwe lenatetshapuo le re go na le go ja dijo tsa ditoro. Mme a re go lemotshe gore le, le farologane le manatetshapuo a mangwe le tshwane le la ntshwakgo, tlwae, le kgakge, ka ao ga a tlhamalale a re go...
We all nurse that secret ambition. My bank balance has, however, kept me and my head under makeshift shades and on plastic chairs. I only go to CBD to argue with BURS staff about miscalculation on my tax returns. For a good number of us the Street...
Research shows it is a staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the globally, particularly in Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa. Botswana doesn’t have a traditional rice dis,h but it makes its way on to many menus in different...
After losing five men, with more wounded, in a failed assault on the hill, Kruger’s men confined themselves to sniping at the Batswana defences. At one point the defenders ran out of bullets but are said to have succeeded in keeping the...
Uncontrollable factors such as poor rainfalls, drought, climate change continue to dampen Botswana’s efforts of ever being fully self-sufficient. As if the country had not had enough natural impediments to the food self-sufficiency goal,...
Emotional abuse is not always one-sided in a relationship; at times both parties may be consciously or unconsciously abusing each other emotionally. This article speaks to some of the herein after mentioned emotional remedies; victims of emotional...
She is a dear friend who tragically lost her husband at a young age. Mindful, due to Corona, many are losing loved ones, I have invited her to do a series on what God has taught her as her loss has left her a single mom of four in a very hard...
As the Director of Health Services correctly said, this is not our first experience with a nationwide immunisation effort. We have had many, and our health services personnel have always acquitted themselves with distinction, often under very...
Their hooves frantically pounding the ground with a vengeance, leaving behind a trail of victims of warfare, famine and death. Likewise, a notorious army of narcissistic swines ruthlessly oink in the social media space, indiscriminately desecrating...
Ba bangwe, ka mabaka mangwe ba diege ba leme paka ya temo e setse e le gaufi le go wela kgotsa e wela. Bao go twe ba lemetse moragong. Ka ba lemetse moragong, mariga a tsene dijwalo tsa bone di ise di butswe sentle. Fa e le mabele a bo a sa ntse a...
Most of us found ourselves in the confines of our homes wondering what to do and how to do it. I personally found myself spending a lot of time in the kitchen, as did many others. Cooking and modifying recipes to ensure everyday there was something...
The Mayor became an instant target of Facebook rants and everyone queued to stick their knives in. With the Mayor all bloodied and looking like he had just survived an encounter with a pit-bull, a plan to pacify the furious masses had to be whipped...
Sechele fortitude and accompanying bravado during the weekend long truce between the Batswana and Boers at Dimawe was underpinned by a formidable arsenal. By 1849 the Boers were already claiming that the Bakwena alone had 500 guns and a cannon. Over...
Emotional abuse, like other forms of abuse, occurs in cycles. There are three phases in the cycle of violence: Phase I -Tension building phase, Phase II – Violence phase, and Phase III- Honeymoon phase. Over time the cycle of violence may...
Death changes the course, the rhythm and meaning of life. Death can cause someone to doubt everything that they had believed about God! On the other hand, death can help us draw closer to God because death is not the end! Death is not final!...
It is wrong. First things, first; I am involved in a matter before him regarding the institution to whose tribunal, he has been appointed. I therefore, I begin my comments by owning up to a potential conflict. Aware of this fact, I shall steer clear...
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