Boko launches grand vision for education, healthcare
Mbongeni Mguni | Saturday September 5, 2026 19:32
Established by businessman, Zunaid Moti and supported by private sector players such as Jindal Energy, the initiative is a public-benefit project with no government funding in which facilities are quickly built from preassembled material to high ratings standards.
Moti is also financing an estimated P2 billion plant in Gabane that will produce various materials required for the project and enable scaling up for both Botswana and the continent.
“African Hero is an infrastructure development organisation working with philanthropists and partners to bring education and healthcare infrastructure to communities. “These facilities in Botswana are the first pilot but Botswana is also going to be the centre of production,” said Boko, who is the founding chair of African Hero.
The president stressed that the pilot school and clinic, in Gaborone Block 7, were public facilities built to the highest standards. The two will be staffed by government employees and recruitment for the school starts on Monday.
Boko said the initiative would be moving at pace to mobilise and spread access to both education and healthcare across the country and the continent, with Malawi reportedly enquiring about the construction of up to 450 schools.
“My hope is to see hundreds more schools and clinics delivered across Botswana and thousands more across the African continent, reaching the children, families and communities who are so deserving of these facilities,” he said.
For his part, Moti said African Hero was primed to deliver schools, clinics and other infrastructure at scale, pace and at a much lower cost than traditional brick and mortar.
“I think that if we can just achieve a few clinics a day, and one or two schools per day, I'll be very pleased and happy. “But I want to extend the model to building old-age homes, to building anything that we need for infrastructure, in a faster, more effective and cheaper way that can be maintained,” he said.
African Hero has committed to supporting and maintaining the infrastructure it delivers for a period of 20 years.
Today’s launch was attended by the second vice president of Malawi, Enoch Chihana.