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Austin Abraham PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
In a precursor to the council meeting, Abraham had defeated his predecessor, Father Maphongo by 17 votes to his 14 in a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) caucus.
Abraham was born in Ramokgwebana village in the North East District but was raised in Bontleng, Gaborone. He is currently Councillor for Sebele Ward (Block 10, BUAN, Sebele Content Farms, and Gaborone North Farms), the largest ward in Gaborone with three Ward Development Committees (WDC).
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...