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.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....