Primary schools to get P50m worth of textbooks
Friday, November 20, 2015

Books on display at one of the launch in Gaborone PIC: KABO MPAETONA
Last year the education ministry’s tender number: PR6/7/9-1 for the supply of textbooks in these schools was approved, but later waived apparently without the publishers’ knowledge.
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) had requested for authority to award the tender to about six publishers.
From Jakoba's mysterious disappearance on November 9 to the grim discovery of his remains at Mosinki Lands, a gap in the response mechanisms of the police and village leadership has been laid bare. The community's anger is evident, seen in the attack on Bakang Masole, the man found driving Jakoba's taxi and the main suspect, and the subsequent riot. Residents express discontent, citing a troubling trend of missing persons cases often...