Sentences due for violent gang robbers
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The three suspects in court PIC: Tumelo Mouwane
Kabo Loratile (20), Phenyo Rakebaang (19) and Thabo Keabetswe (19) were found guilty of robbing Thabiso Lekhane of P800, a cooler bag worth P350 and a black ZTE phone valued at P350 on March 14, 2015.
Submitting their mitigation before court, the three convicts said they had families to take care of and pleaded for reduced sentences.
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...