"I will not give any interview from now and will not want to talk to Mmegi. There was a headline which insinuated that I deliberately lied to the President and when that seemed not to be enough, your editor put the last nail in his editorial which called for my resignation," the minister said when contacted about the teachers' unions meeting with President Ian Khama and the marking of examinations.
She said while she is contemplating what action to take against Mmegi, she will not give any interviews to the paper. The minister is annoyed over suggestions that she misled the President to believe that the exams were conducted successfully while continuing ones were running well. The exams were hit by a crisis because teachers boycotted invigilation after a pay dispute with the Botswana Examinations Council (BEC). After the President's speech in Parliament, Venson-Moitoi admitted that the exams were held under challenging conditions. She suggested that the government was economic with the truth to protect the candidates.
