World no-tobacco day – ‘Commit to Quit’ Dr. Bontle Mbongwe is the esteemed recipient of the 2018 International Network for Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) Achievement Award, the WHO Director General’s award for leadership in global tobacco control, University of Botswana’s Head of Environmental Health Programmes. This week Dr. Mbongwe sat down with Voice Woman to […]
First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) through its corporate social responsibility arm,First National Bank Botswana Foundation (FNBBF) has launched a Gender
26th May 2021
Former Director General of the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) Isaac Kgosi is demanding P50 million for unlawful warrant of arrest and detention in a military prison at Sir Seretse Khama Barracks.
In a surprising turn of events, the matter is before High Court Judge Dr Zein Kebonang who happens to be a co-accused with Isaac Kgosi in the P230 million National Petroleum Fund (NPF) case before they were discharged and acquitted.
The state is represented by Deputy Attorney General, Charles Gulubane, who argued the NPF case. Kebonang and Kgosi were acquitted in that case.
Documents before court show that Kgosi is interested in the evidence of Palapye Magistrate Court Rebecca Motsamai who is cited as the 10
TWO Zimbabwean men are languishing in a Botswana prison after being arrested for armed robbery where a local businessman lost cash and valuables worth 1
Yet this is exactly how
Lorato felt when her then husband forced her to have sex twice without her consent. Although the traumatic events took place eight years ago, the pain and anguish in her speech feel as if the event just took place.
Speaking to
Arts & Society anonymously
, Lorato says there is a type of rape in Botswana that is not illegal, whose perpetrator would not even be seen as a criminal in the eyes of the law. And that is marital rape. Marital rape is the unsolicited, unwarranted or unconsented sexual intercourse or sexual penetration by the sex organ, other body part or a foreign object within the confines of marriage.