Teacher gets 10 years for rape

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Francistown: A Zimbabwe political refugee was sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping another from Burundi at Dukwi Refugee Camp in January 2012.

The perpetrator, Jacob Gumiro, was a teacher at Skillshare International School while the complainant is a cleaner there.

Giving the sentence, Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi said that he took into account that the accused was a first offender and is diabetic.

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Let’s fight GBV as a collective

Botswana for the longest time was known for her virulent peace with family being an enviable institution.As the media, we are also scared to be incessantly reporting on these bloody scenes where women are brutally murdered and worse, sometimes in front of their children and loved ones. Yes, we have reported cases where men were also brutally murdered by their loved ones, but such cases are a drop in the ocean.For the past two weeks, Botswana was...

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