GBV worries political parties

First lady Neo Masisi holding a plaque during a GBV awareness campaign PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
First lady Neo Masisi holding a plaque during a GBV awareness campaign PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Since the advent of politics in Botswana, some political activists-from the lowest structure of the cell to the presidency-across the political spectrum have been embroiled in sexual misconduct scandals. The latest big fish to be caught in this web is the president of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), Biggie Butale. Mmegi Correspondent LEBOGANG MOSIKARE argues that it’s high time local political parties adopt sexual harassment policies within their systems

FRANCISTOWN: In most democratic countries, all political movements subscribe to the notion that all people have the right to be treated with dignity and respect and not be subject of sexual misconduct, harassment, or discrimination of any kind.

This can be either in the public, workplaces, voluntary organisations and even in progressive political parties among other areas.

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Sadly, we live in a society that seems to be losing its moral fibre by the day.When parents take their children to a boarding school they do so to give them a brighter future, not to have some dirty paedophilic predator to prey on them. Sex orientation is a touchy subject and for young minds to be sexualised at a young age by a grown man perpetrating harm on them by cutting through their sphincter muscle to penetrate their anal canal. Anyone can...

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