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Academic cheating must be rooted out

News that a lecturer at Tlokweng College of Education allegedly sold an examination paper for a mere P600 should shake every parent, student, and education official in the country. This is not a petty classroom offence, but a gross betrayal of trust by someone entrusted with shaping future teachers.

If the allegations are proved, the educator in question stole not only an exam but also the future of honest students who studied hard.

The Ministry of Higher Education acted correctly by suspending the Special Education paper at both Tlokweng and Serowe colleges, as reported elsewhere in this edition.

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Govt must crack whip on Cross border crime

“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...

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