P10m In School Fees Spent On Ex-Mine workers
Monday, April 08, 2019

Thato Kwerepe PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Following the mine closure, the government undertook to pay school fees for the children of the former BCL Mine employees in private schools.
This was to last until the end of 2017, before the children could be moved to public schools as part of a number of initiatives government undertook to assist former mineworkers.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...