Letlhakane: The village in distress

Letlhakane Township PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Letlhakane Township PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Statistics on social crime in Letlhakane have incessantly presented a bad image of men as they stalk the girl-children and the women. Both the young girls and women are terrorised by a dark cloud of defilement and rape incidents that hang over their heads continuously. Now the police have moved a gear up to involve the community in the fight against the social crime scourge. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE & Correspondent LESEDI MKHUTSHWA follow the never-ending story  

FRANCISTOWN: Some have been sexually abused outside their homes, whilst others were simply attacked in the comfort of their homes leaving ‘Zowa’ as Letlhakane is known, an unsafe place. 

The story of social crime in Letlhakane is well documented unfortunately; it is refusing to go. 

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