This week we confine outselves to the issue of repayment of government loans by those who benefited from the Bursaries Department - now the Department of Student Placement and Welfare.
Indeed the government has helped many of us escape poverty through the provision of tertiary education, which has transformed out lives to reasonable levels.
It is important that this tradition of helping Batswana get a university education should be continued as a measure of poverty reduction as well as widening the country's skilled human resource.
But we know that the very well from which we draw water will dry up at some point as government is constrained by many other challenges.
We believe that those who have benefited from government loans would do well to start paying them, so as to enable the government to continue the noble duty of sponsoring the next generation of graduates.
Every Motswana who has benefited from this funding should take it upon him or herself to start repaying the loans.
It would be suicidal for those who know that they have not paid back their loans to keep quiet in the hope that the creditors do not identify them.
This is not to say that the blame lies entirely with those who have not paid their dues.
The office of the Student Placement and Welfare should also take the blame as it is only recently that the department talked about their intention to set up a collections office.
We doubt if the department still has data for all those students who benefited from government sponsorship over the last two decades.
However instead of people celebrating that they will never be caught, due to insufficient data at the bursaries, we call on past beneficiaries to be responsible enough and put national interest above their own selfish ones.
We need to continue the legacy of free education.
With a little sense of responsibility we can rescue the situation.
