Retired Chaplain Moleofe � You Know Nothing About BDF
Monday, September 21, 2015
You must know that whenever I have to respond to your misdirected anger and half-truths of your column, I do so with a bit of guilt. I do so knowing that I am probably being just like you, I am probably not keeping my oath to keep military affairs off the public radar.
As you will recall, part of the military code of ethics is that we keep military issues within the military even after resigning or retiring. We are bound to do that even after leaving the military in the not so honourable way as was your case.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...