AFCON bid: Was it a glass half-full or half-empty?
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 680 Views |
Failed bid: Lobatse Sports Complex will have to wait a little longer to host the AFCON PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
At 2:30pm Monday, a Botswana delegation boarded an Ethiopian Airlines flight destined for the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The crew, on a mission to land Botswana the rights to host the 2027 AFCON finals, took to the skies amidst rising optimism but touched down three days later at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport with mangled wreckage. Now a nation is sifting through the wreckage where once what was regarded as a compelling bid, stood.
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...