Women, stand up
Friday, January 20, 2017
Pedersen has been at the helm of the international organisation for five years. “The civil society raise your voice, women of Botswana in particular stand up,” he said. “Men won’t give up power easily, you better stand up and fight for it.”
He reiterated the UN’s call for more women in politics and stressed the need to get their political representation up. This call is not new because when the UN Women started operations In Botswana last year, the then country programme manager, Karin Feug made a similar call. Feug had expressed concern at the fact that women political participation still lags behind in her first local press interview.
The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...