NACA shutdown
Friday, October 30, 2015

NACA offices in Gaborone
The government has, amid tension and fear from stakeholders, resolved to dissolve National Aids Coordinating Agency (NACA), an iconic government organisation that has been instrumental in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Mmegi has established that government has decided to dissolve the organisation and integrate it into the Ministry of Health’s HIV/AIDS department.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...