Astley Gops a re Tima Lebon
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Astley Gops
Pina e e opelwa ke bobedi jwa ga Astley Gops le mogaka wa Motswako ebong Noelo. Fa a bua le Naledi maabane mabapi le alebamo e, Rathobane jaaka a tlwaelesegile go bidiwa ke barati le balatedi ba mmino mono gae le kwa Aferika Borwa o boletse fa pina e Tima Lebone e le pina ya lorato, mme e diritswe batho ba le babedi ba ba ratanang lorato la o ka a swan ka go ja. Le e reng batho ba teng ba bonwa ba le mmogo gotwe hee ka re lo a tuka lorato la bone.
Lorato le e reng yo mongwe phefo e phailela pampiri mo dinaong tsa gagwe, moratiwa wa gagwe a mo utlwele botlhoko a re e ratile go mo roba, a nna a re sori beibi, a gatelela gore pina e e ka dirisiwa ke batho ba Inthsitse diautu go ya go nwa dinwa maphoi mmogo ka nako ya go robala ga dikoko.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...