A journey to Moeng College
Friday, November 14, 2008
FRANCISTOWN: Our long wait for the Moeng College bound trucks to pick us from the Palapye railway station had already exposed us to many risks.The motor vehicles that incessantly splashed some stationery water trapped in the black cotton soil at the station bothered us a lot. The rains had come early that year and the thick dark clouds that hung above promised that rain could return anytime.Palapye's known pickpockets were also lurking around the station area to possibly make hay from us as some of us were careless with our valued possessions.Moeng College, which was popularly known as MOCOL, opened its doors to its first students in 1949.
But on the particularly sensitive question of cadre deployment, the BNF must tread very carefully.The issue deserves robust debate, not ideological enthusiasm. Recent public comments from the BNF leadership are reassuring: the party has said that government positions should be based on merit and competence rather than party membership, and that it does not have a specific cadre-deployment policy.That principle should remain firmly at the centre...