No More �C Passes� Next Year, Setlalekgosi
Monday, November 07, 2016
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.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...