Rammidi Calls For Inclusion Of Community Leaders

Speaking at a High Level consultative breakfast meeting to accelerate the implementation of the Act, which was passed in 2009, at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) on Friday, Kentse Rammidi said that community leaders are the people who could help disseminate the Act efficiently to the grassroots. "It is one thing to have a law and another to understand it. Dikgosi are the most appropriate people to engage as they have better access to the communities and the parents of the children. You must not only address the councillors, people will look at it like a political matter and leave it like that," he said.

The Act, that has been described as the most important milestone in Botswana's efforts to realise all children's rights for all of the country's current and future children, caused an uproar with the section that calls for the right of each child to have the names of both parents on their birth certificates even if they are born out of wedlock.