G/hope moves to scrap school donkey carts
Friday, June 19, 2020
Pupils being transported on a donkey cart
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.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...