Thank you Mr President

It was the year 1996 of our Lord! My day could not have been any better. The stadium was full of graduates from University of Botswana, Botswana Polytechnic and Botswana Agricultural College on the day of their joint graduation ceremony. All of us were very happy but I must have been the happiest of them all.

I was an engineering professional starting that moment on. But I had come from very far. I had completed my schooling with no dime, no penny or a thebe to pay for what I have become. Botswana was very poor when I started my schooling in 1975. My peasant parents were struggling to pay for my marginal school fees.