No More �C Passes� Next Year, Setlalekgosi

Pinkie Setlalekgosi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Pinkie Setlalekgosi PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

It appears there is no slowing down for community developer and Mookane Primary School adopter, Pinkie Setlalekgosi, as she has promised to eliminate C passes at the rural primary school come 2017, and she has a well laid down strategy to achieve that.

Despite pumping over half a million pula into the local primary school since she officially started adopting it in 2013, resulting in the overall pass rate improving from 41% to 55.6% last year, the 62-year-old popularly revered as ‘Ausi Pinkie’ has pledged to eliminate the C passes next year, emphasising that the school will only settle for A’s and B’s and nothing else.

Setlalekgosi has asked the school management to provide her with a list of school subjects that are problematic in the area to enable her to source tutors who will camp in the village for four months drilling the pupils, especially the Standard Seven ones, in preparations for the examinations next year.

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