botswana: Gender and Development - botswana's battered women

We have just emerged from a month of mourning and burial of a number of young women whose lives were abruptly cut short at the hands of young men they had come to know intimately. The incidences of murder of young women by husbands, lovers, fiancees or other male liaisons have become quite a regular occurrence in Botswana today with the increase in population density, rapid and frequent interaction, and ease of movement.