Botswana moves to register, monitor sexual offenders
Friday, September 25, 2020
The drafted Bill’s main objective is to come up the sexual offenders registry Act that will in the long run provide registration of sexual offenders, monitoring and matters concerning registered offenders, among other factors.
The Bill came into effect following the seating of the winter Parliament where a concern was raised about high numbers of Gender-Based Violence incidents in the country.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....