Candidate queries BNFWL election outcome
Monday, March 28, 2022 | 590 Views |

Some of the delegates at the BNFWL elective congress
Kesiilwe was battling it out with Dr Bonang Nkoane whom she lost to after the latter won with 342 votes. Kesiilwe got 91 votes while only four votes were spoilt.
“It is true I had written a letter to the electoral board to complain about how things were done starting from the preparations of the congress. There was no proper communication on the date of the congress and again we were not given enough time to campaign at different constituencies,” Kesiilwe said on Sunday.
Sadly, the country seems not to have proper tools and the extent to which women and the girl-child are being abused is not adequately measured.Almost every week there are reports of women being attacked by their significant others and while men are attacked as well, women seem to be more on the receiving end.On May 24, 2023 news broke that a woman who was receiving support from the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention Centre in Gaborone, was...