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- Police investigate rape on the river. Mmegi Online, 25 September 2007. FRANCISTOWN: A Zimbabwean illegal immigrant was allegedly caught red-handed by the police raping a woman suspected to be a commercial sex worker on Saturday night near Tati River.
- Mother testifies in child rape case. Mmegi Online, Botswana, 13 September 2007
The ordeal was too much for Masimo Kitso*. Tearfully, she gave testimony during her daughter's rape case at the Magistrates' Court on Monday.
- Dramatic twist in Mathokgwane rape case.
Mmegi Online, 04 September 2007. The case in which former Botswana National Front executive secretary, James Mathokgwane is accused of raping a nine-year-old girl took a dramatic turn yesterday at the Broadhurst Magistrates' Court. Defence lawyer Moses Kadye alleged that the girl told a closed court that Mathokgwane is not the one who raped her.
- Report delves into HIV risks of sex workers and their clients.
IRIN PlusNews, 30 July 2007.
They sell sex for money or goods. It's a risky business - and illegal in Botswana - but female sex workers are out there, and so are the clients who keep them in business.
- Child trafficking rife in Botswana.
Mmegi Online, 12 June 2007.
Child trafficking is nothing anyone would want to associate Botswana with but it is happening right here at home and has been for centuries.
- Discrimination against women spurs on Aids.
Independent Online, 28 May 2007. Johannesburg - Cultural beliefs that women are inferior to men are spurring the rapid spread of HIV in Swaziland and Botswana, the countries most affected by Aids, according to a report released Monday.
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