How education transformed Botswana

Friday, September 25, 2015

As Botswana attains 49 years of independence, no one must have envisaged a country that will be so blessed in both human and natural resources 49 years later, which have now catapulted the country into a middle-income category.

The issue of only a few kilometres of tarred roads at the time, and other challenges showed a country that had a beggar status.

The country’s infrastructure was virtually non-existent, as the country depended entirely on others, especially Britain, for its development budget.

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