Botswana named in UN witchcraft report
Friday, August 06, 2010
The report released in April 2010 puts Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania in the same class where involvement of children in witchcraft is common.
Senior Superintendent, Dipheko Motube, said this week that they do not have statistics on witchcraft cases in Botswana because there is no law that recognises the practice.
Over the years, there has been many reports of infants being abandoned by parents. Many factors can contribute to child abandonment, some of which may stem from mental health issues and lack of support, but other reasons may be that one could have made better choices with proper education. Some parents abandon their infants due to financial difficulties and the fear of having to provide for a newborn. Many developed countries have come up with...