Domestic violence law discourse on course - Letso
Friday, April 16, 2010
Kokorwe was the one who tabled the Domestic Violence Bill in Parliament as a private member's bill because she was concerned about incidents of domestic violence. This was the first time that a Backbencher had succeeded at presenting such a bill in Parliament.
For a long time, she fought to table this bill. Kokorwe was consulting with gender movements and other stakeholders when she was drafting the proposed law.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...