G/hope moves to scrap school donkey carts

Pupils being transported on a donkey cart
Pupils being transported on a donkey cart

The Goodhope Sub-District Council recently adopted a motion to scrap taking pupils to schools in donkey carts.

When the donkey carts programme was introduced a couple of years ago, it was met with a lot of resistance after the government insisted it was the only option.

Nominated Councillor, Kenaleone Motsaathebe  argued recently that transporting pupils by donkey carts was not only unsuitable but very irrelevant in this day of the fourth industrial revolution, the digital era and the upward mobility of Botswana from a middle income economy to an upper-middle income economy.

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