Donkey carts �drastically� reduce school dropouts
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Pupils transported in a donkey cart
However, statistics were not readily made available to show the extent of the reduction brought upon by the initiative. Specially nominated council member for Gantsi South, Thato Tshweneyagae revealed this at the United Nations Day where stakeholder engagement in the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was stressed.
He was part of a panel that discussed how stakeholder engagement is crucial for implementing the SDGs.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...