It is no secret that Batswana or rather African fathers have tremendous control and influence over their families. The father sets the tone of the home. For many people growing up, fathers struggled with alcohol. When or if they came home for the day, the children, made themselves scarce otherwise they got verbally or physically abused. The crime could easily be the fact that they did not greet their father as loudly as he felt he deserved.
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