Pinning Dreams On Volunteer Policing

For Ratau, who finished  Form V in 2007 and has never  seen the sun shine on  his career ambitions, this initiative provides a rare opportunity  to  change his life for good and he is determined to make it that way.  The  lad tells the Monitor that  he and his colleagues in the volunteer policing have been briefed that they could earn themselves  permanent police  jobs if they work hard. This piece of good news has  given him so much hope he can't wait to prove his mettle and soar like an eagle.

Ratau is no ordinary young man. He describes himself as more of a destitute after his parents' home at Block 5 was razed by bulldozers because his parents were among Gaborone residents who had occupied land illegally. "I don't know what to say regarding where I live. My parents used to have  a home in Block 5 before it was destroyed.