The Effects Of COVID-19 Induced Lockdown On Women In Botswana
Monday, May 11, 2020
Of the fewer than 30 confirmed COVID-19 cases, there has only been one death juxtaposed to the twelve recoveries at the time that this piece is published.
Besides the first few cases, there has been no disclosure of the genderedness of the positive results. Scientists and experts conducting various rapid tests and researches around the globe, on different scientific, social, economic, political, and even cultural matters, have generally found that covid-19 strikes men more than women.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...