Nineteen maintenance cases a week in Phikwe

Pule said during a Women's Affairs Department-arranged workshop on Wednesday that the police are so overwhelmed with such cases that they have set aside Fridays to process them. He noted that this is an indication of how cruel men can be in that they are forced by the law to support their own children.

He lamented that it becomes a stigma to a child to learn as he/she grows up, that the father was forced to support them through court orders. He also urged men to discard their pride and demand maintenance from women where it is necessary and indicated that there are some women who are also paying maintenance though they have not yet registered any such case in Selebi-Phikwe yet.