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AGAINST ALL ODDS
Feb. 3 | RealLives: Woman’s fierce battle against the big C DESPERATE: Shurdic Tlagae As the world unites to fight against cancer on February the 4th, under the theme; ‘Together it is possible’ a Digawana woman battling the killer disease...
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Dec. 16 | FOCUSED: Lesole Ntshole Cartoonist with disability makes his mark He cuts a lonely figure as he walks around Gaborone malls shopping for a computer so he can operate his business from home. Lesole Ntshole is no ordinary person; he has been living...
BABY DADDY DRAMA
Dec. 9 | UNEMPLOYED AND BITTER: Pono Thapelo Father queries maintenance as child calls another man daddy An unemployed father who was recently ordered by the court to pay P300 in monthly child maintenance has made a public appeal for financial aid to...
CULTURE MATTERS
Nov. 25 | Canadian Student Experiences Botswana Over 12000km away from his Sudbury home in Canada, Aaron Brubacher, 20 was on a student exchange programme which brought him to Gaborone’s University of Botswana (UB), where he studied since August. LEGAL...
LIVING WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Oct. 5 | IN PAIN: Matshediso Medupe Woman seeks divine intervention as incurable disease shatters her life Doctors can not do much to treat her multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable disease that is slowly but surely shutting down her body systems. Matshediso...
DAUGHTERS WHO DO NOTHING BUT BEAR CHILDREN
Aug. 26 | IN DESPAIR: Granny Baleseng and her pregnant daughter When parents get older they normally expect their children to take turn and look after them. But that has not been the case for 72 year old Keikanne Baleseng, a widower from Mmadinare whose daughters...
I might act like a woman but I am not gay
Aug. 12 | Real lives: sexuality By Joy Chikura FRUSTRATED: OtengTollinMatsemela A 23 year old man who has since childhood been mistaken for a girl and eventually a woman has gone public declaring that he is a real man with proper male organs. Oteng Tollin Matsemela...
TORN APART BY INCEST
Aug. 5 | Mother blames poverty on daughter’ sexual relationship with dad A woman who ran away from her matrimonial home because her husband was having an incestuous relationship with their daughter has blamed the family troubles on poverty. IN...
JUSTICE DENIED
Jul. 29 | Police accused of sweeping nine- year- old girl’s rape case under the carpet Three years after her nine -year old child was defiled, a distraught mother who was also raped as a little girl, is struggling to come to terms with delayed justice. In...
TORTURED LIFE OF AN ABUSED WIFE
Jul. 22 | Woman relives heartache with Kenyan husband who stole their 8- year- old child EMOTIONALLY DRAINED: Gosego Makhumula sobs as she tells her shocking absue story A turbulent 12 years of marriage to an abusive foreign husband has left...
THE COST OF LIVING
Jul. 8 | PLUGGED IN: Sheikh on dialysis machine EXCLUSIVE : Prominent Francistown businesswoman Afroza Sheikh has spent over half a million pula to stay alive as she battles with a life threatrening kidney disease. Now she spends four hours twice a week in a clinic...
Dark secret revealed by recovery of a suitcase
Jul. 1 | Carlly ThatiWhen Carlly Thati unmistakably recognised his long lost suitcase in the possession of a fellow passenger at the Francistown bus rank, he thought it was pure luck. But when he confronted the man, he unearthed a dark secret that was to change...
PLEASE COME BACK HOME
Apr. 29 | DESPERATE: Nomsa Ncube Wife in a desperate plea as husband has been missing for months It’s been eight months since a habitual gambler and father of six deserted his wife of 22 years after gambling away tuition fees for their first born child. And...
BATTLING FOR SURVIVAL
Apr. 8 | Diana Bosolo, the HIV/AIDS patient we featured recently in her ongoing battle against the deadly scourge is back in hospital fighting for her life. While her caretakers, Onkabetse Ramotshipi, 32, and Doreen Moilwa, 45, have struggled tirelessly to help...
POLICE RELEASE UNSEEN VIDEO FROM 9/11
Mar. 12 | The Twin Tower Previously unseen footage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks filmed from a police helicopter flying above the burning World Trade Centre has emerged almost ten years on after the terrorist atrocity. The New York Police Department air and sea...
MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL
Mar. 4 | MALEBOGO: Before she was shot When Malebogo Molefhe’s ex soldier boyfriend shot her eight times from close range in a frenzied attack, death seemed a certainty. That she lived is nothing short of a miracle. Now almost two years on, the 31-year-old...
WAITING IN VAIN
Feb. 25 | IN THE LURCH: Ditlhapi Galeboe When hunger and hopelessness become the order of the day When Ditlhapi Galeboe queued patiently to cast a vote in the last 2009 general election, she was hoping that the elected government would give her a fair share of...
NO COMFORT OR JOY… BUT MOTHER PUTS ON A BRAVE FACE
Jan. 28 | DEVASTATED: Masego Bakwale When Masego Bakwale was admitted to hospital nine months pregnant with a baby girl, she was looking forward to welcoming a new addition to the family. But things went horribly wrong when she lost the baby in bizarre and shocking...
FORGIVE AND FORGET
Jan. 21 | LIVING POSITIVELY: Marcel Acquet REAL LIVES: CRIME When Marcel Acquet was brutally attacked and robbed of his possessions, his world was blown apart. But now three weeks after his horrific ordeal, his life has taken a turn for the better.. A few days...
