�Botswana failed van Rensburg�

Speaking during a memorial service to honour the departed hero in Serowe on Saturday, Boko said had the country taken heed of what van Rensburg sought to inculcate in the nation, Botswana could have been the cream of education among all the countries with production at the centre.

“But we miserably failed to do so.  Let us openly accept that we have failed him so that we can be able to redeem ourselves as a country,” he said. Boko further said that one would expect visible steps to have been taken on the 1993 education policy that sought to vocationalise education but nothing thus far.  “It is a great regret.