Motlakase goalie could be jailed
Monday, November 23, 2015

Daniel Kedidimetse
Kedidimetse is facing a single charge of defilement that allegedly happened on July 6, 2013 at Lerala village. Mosweu warned him he could be locked up even before the resolution of his case after the goal-keeper failed to appear in court last week Tuesday. According to state prosecutor, Moses Serojane, the trial was meant to commence last week, but the accused did not attend the session because he had confused his set dates.
“The trial could not commence on Tuesday due to non-attendance of the accused who claimed to be confused by the trial dates,” said Serojane. In her response, Mosweu notified the accused to take court business seriously especially during trial sessions.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...