The collapse of Moeng College

Friday, March 20, 2020

Moeng old dormitories brought down by the storm last year PIC: MOENG COLLEGE ALUMNIA

It’s easy to decipher that negative forces have for a long time been conniving against one of the country’s oldest schools, Moeng College pulling it down to the lowest rung. The well-documented collapse of Moeng College is a true story of a giant that has fallen. Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE and Correspondent KOKETSO KGOBOGE visited Moeng College recently and they compiled this story.

MOENG COLLEGE: The 2019 Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Examinations (BGCSE) tell the story of a collapsed giant that Moeng College was known for in the years of yore: In the academic circles.

Out of 34 senior secondary schools, Moeng was lucky to be number 32 after garnering 16.7 percent and has otherwise been on an accelerated downward spiral.

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