{"id":217321,"date":"2025-12-19T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-gender-gap-in-botswanas-judicial-caning\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:17:43","slug":"botswana-the-gender-gap-in-botswanas-judicial-caning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-gender-gap-in-botswanas-judicial-caning\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: The Gender Gap in Botswana&#8217;s Judicial Caning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">editors@thepatriot.co.bw<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">RelatedPosts<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Unlocking Railway Potential<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">BW&#8217;s anti-corruption ranking declines<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">Kutlwano market reawakens Phikwe<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Botswana&#8217;s constitution is said to be gender neutral, guaranteeing equal protection under the law, yet a clause in the Penal Code under the Customary Courts Act still allows judicial caning for men only. The law that permits caning presents an undeniable gender gap which excuses women from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts Unlocking Railway Potential BW&#8217;s anti-corruption ranking declines Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Kutlwano market reawakens Phikwe Botswana&#8217;s constitution is said to be gender neutral, guaranteeing equal protection under the law, yet a clause in the Penal Code under the Customary Courts Act still allows judicial caning for men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,10477,53174,12910,6029,9667,257,254],"class_list":["post-217321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-caning","tag-gap","tag-gender","tag-judicial","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}