Stop the madness in administration of justice
Friday, September 25, 2015

Dibotelo
We are aghast at seeing this side of the coin tossed to expose the dirty linen in the chambers. The audit was done, irregularities were found and transparency factored. But what happened to discretion in addressing such an internal matter and ensuring the wrongly dispensed and received monies were recovered?
The Judges are treated like dirty criminal who must be “bewigged” and hang their heads in shame. One suspects there is a bone to chew, a dirty scoundrel of a matter. It should have been enough to have the Judges licking their wounds and starving over the deductions for the months to come! But no, somebody just reduces the institution to this sordidness. The whole thing smacks of poor management, add to that a manipulative and divisive type of working environment.
Sadly, the country seems not to have proper tools and the extent to which women and the girl-child are being abused is not adequately measured.Almost every week there are reports of women being attacked by their significant others and while men are attacked as well, women seem to be more on the receiving end.On May 24, 2023 news broke that a woman who was receiving support from the Botswana Gender-Based Violence Prevention Centre in Gaborone, was...