Ensuring equality of indigenous persons - The case of the San in Botswana and the LGBT community generally

Ranyane settlement residents
Ranyane settlement residents

Director of Proceeding, thank you for your kind introduction. It is wonderful to be amongst my brethren and sisters of the Commonwealth Legal heritage. I would like to acknowledge, with humility and respect, that this meeting is being held on the traditional lands of the First Australians.

These includes the Jagera and the Turrbal people, the Nunukul of Stradbroke Island, the Joondaburri of Bribie Island, the Ningy Ningy of Moreton Bay, the Gubbi Gubbi of the Sunshine Coast and Yagera and Ugarapul from Rosewood out towards Helidon. I pay my respect to them, their elders past and present.

Director of Proceedings, I bring you greetings and well wishes from the mighty continent of Africa, and my own country Botswana – and in many respects still an Island of sanity in a sea of turbulence.

Editor's Comment
Child protection needs more than prevailing laws

The rise in defilement and missing persons cases, particularly over the recent festive period, points not merely to a failure of policing, but to a profound and widespread societal crisis. Whilst the Police chief’s plea is rightly directed at parents, the root of this emergency runs deeper, demanding a collective response from every corner of our community. Marathe’s observations paint a picture of neglect with children left alone for...

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