The government negotiates to takeover secondary education

Curiously, Serowe itself was without a secondary school until the founding of Swaneng by van Rensburg. In the south, the Bakgatla, Bangwaketse and Bakwena each possessed junior certificate secondary schools – Molefi, Seepapitso and Kgari Sechele, the Catholics were responsible for St. Joseph’s in tribal Kgale with the recently established Gaborone Secondary School being the one and only government owned secondary school in the country.

The meeting of 24th February 1967 in Mochudi was probably similar to those held elsewhere with the Deputy Director of Education, Gaositwe Chiepe, explaining the government’s intention to assume total responsibility for secondary education.  Implicitly this meant that the four tribes were being asked to hand over what they had started.