Swaneng's 50th Anniversary�A hance to ask and to debate

On the weekend of March 22/23 Serowe will be celebrating Swaneng’s 50th anniversary (a year late!).

Anniversaries always give us the opportunity to re-think and re-assess and this one challenges us to get to grips with the school’s remarkable founder, Patrick van Rensburg and with the policies he advocated.

Patrick, as now fewer and fewer remember, was responsible for establishing in Serowe a secondary school (Swaneng), a primary school, numerous Brigade projects, cooperative societies and an inter-linking production project known as Boiteko. 

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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