{"id":24562,"date":"2023-03-25T06:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment"},"modified":"2023-03-25T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:52:12","slug":"security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment","title":{"rendered":"Security Officers Decry Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Sexual harassment is rampant in the private security sector where it is largely unreported for fear of losing jobs by female employees, the Security Officers Association Botswana (SOAB) has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the President of SOAB, Batanani Morapelo, who doubles as a member of the Private Security Licensing Board (PSLB), the failure to report cases of sexual harassment is itself a problem.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deployment officers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to confirm that there is lot of sexual harassment mostly by Deployment Supervisors and Managers. In most case these people use their positions to solicit sexual favours from female security guards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey make sexual advances promising promotion. However, for fear of losing their jobs, some heed these advances,\u201d he said, adding that the situation is made worse by the notoriety of the sector for late payment or failure to pay employees.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to making sexual advances on their female colleagues, Morapelo accused senior officers of using threats to instil fear in their juniors.<\/p>\n<p><b>Threatened and suborned <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are threatened and suborned to do something that violates the Employment Act\u201d he asserted. \u201cAfraid of losing their jobs, the juniors officers end up doing as told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morapelo expressed concern that security officers are reluctant to join SOAB when joining is the only way that the organisation can investigate cases of sexual harassment and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity officers should join the association freely in large numbers for their own benefit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, the Chairman of Botswana Security Association (BSA), Grembo Kealotswe, became no-committal. \u201cSometimes female employees use it when they are on the wrong side of things,\u201d he said. \u201cThey do this to shift the focus sexual harassment is a sensitive matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Sexual harassment is rampant in the private security sector where it is largely unreported for fear of losing jobs by female employees, the Security Officers Association Botswana (SOAB) has said. According to the President of SOAB, Batanani Morapelo, who doubles as a member of the Private Security Licensing Board (PSLB), the failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-24562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Security Officers Decry Sexual Harassment - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sexual harassment is rampant in the private security sector where it is largely unreported for fear of losing jobs by ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security Officers Decry Sexual Harassment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sexual harassment is rampant in the private security sector where it is largely unreported for fear of losing jobs by ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-25T06:16:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-25T06:52:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679708131.15.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"890\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Security Officers Decry Sexual Harassment\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-25T06:16:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-25T06:52:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\"},\"wordCount\":296,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679708131.15.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/security-officers-decry-sexual-harassment\",\"name\":\"Security Officers Decry Sexual Harassment - 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