They open up about their love life, secret romantic date nights around Gaborone, and jewellery shopping sprees in Prague, Czech Republic. It is a ‘ride-or-die’ love affair that will this weekend be made public at traditional Pato and Magadi ceremonies in Moshupa. Sometime in 2020, a Directorate on Intelligence Services (DIS) senior agent, Tshepo Tilia Thupa, received a message from Director General (DG) Peter Fana Magosi instructing her to meet at a certain location in Gaborone.
Thupa thought it was a DIS operational matter, but she was suspicious. It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it…