Woman “flogged on her bare buttocks”
From BOPA, the Botswanan news agency on 19 Feb:
Now, a new disorder is taking route in the once envied district of Bakgatla-ba-ga-Kgafela. A series of beatings of innocent people… have taken root. According to the police, four cases of innocent beatings have been reported to them even though the victims are not willing to pursue the cases further…
Not even women are spared the rod. The police have confirmed that a woman was recently flogged on her bare buttocks by Madisakgosi and like the men folks, is not willing to go the court route.
Rewind all these to a public humiliation of a drama group that scooped number one through their play only for the actors to be lashed for portraying bogwera and bojale in an edutainment piece.
Kgosi Sekai Linchwe has gone on record stating that the flogging will continue for some time to come. He said bogosi has taken a stand to whip anyone, regardless of age, who commits any minor offence in the village.
