Dramatis personae of Matsha tragedy
Friday, November 20, 2015
The burst tyre from the bus PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
S & CD office
The Social and Community Development (S&CD) office is responsible for the Remote Areas Dwellers Programme. The Kweneng District Council’s S&CD office is therefore responsible for assisting remote dwellers from Matsha College with transport to their respective settlements. It appears authorities remotely sent a truck with a driver and his assistant to Matsha College without due care.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...