Mooketsi slams BDP over exams

The Botswana National Front Youth League (BNFYL) president, Tona Mooketsi has called on the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) government to resign because of the poor 2012 Junior Certificate Examination (JCE) results.

Mooketsi said the results have caused irrecoverable spiritual, intellectual, psychological and academic damage. "With our education system in crisis, our children's future and the future of this country are doomed with ghastly repercussions to contemplate," he said.

He stated that the Youth League is calling on the Executive Secretary of Botswana Examination Council, Teaching Service Management and the Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary to resign alongside "the 48-year-old BDP government of the conservative, reactionary, tribalistic, clan, family dynastic, autocratic and stratocratic feudal to do the honourable thing and resign".

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