Restoring Lost Hope For Failed Students

Friday, April 09, 2010

FRANCISTOWN: It is never good to give up hope, Ofentse Motshoganetsi has learnt. After writing supplementary examinations at a private school he passed with flying colours proving to the prophets of doom that they were wrong in trying to dissuade him from writing again.

In his own words, even his own family as well as friends had given up on him.

"My parents thought the idea of repeating would be a waste of money as they had lost hope in me. They thought I would never make it, so I was more determined to prove them wrong," he said enthusiastically.

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