Plight of Female Zebras echoes global battle of sexes
Friday, April 05, 2019
The women's team will play Namibia tonight PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
For starters, the women’s soccer team has failed to conclusively attract a nickname. ‘She Zebras, Mares and Female Zebras’ have been thrown around without firm success. The team faces an identity crisis, while their male counterparts are a known, but stuttering brand.
The women’s national league has not been played for two seasons, with the Botswana Football Association (BFA) preferring to break it into regions.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...