Police probe minister’s wife in cattle dispute
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Mmegi is informed that the feud began last month when cattle belonging to the farmer trespassed onto the minister’s (names withheld for now) farm, leading to an alleged confrontation between the wife and the farmer.
“The farmer followed the herd’s tracks and discovered that they had trespassed onto the minister’s farm, whereupon the minister’s wife demanded compensation for the damage they had caused,” a villager in the area told Mmegi.
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...