Tlokweng Dayspring Faces Closure

The Monitor has established that the landlord is threatening to lock-up the premises of the school this week to force the owners of the school to pay more than P2 million in rent arrears. The arrears have been piling for five years.

The threatened closure of the school has forced one of the experts in President Ian Khama's Moral Ethics Committee, Rev Johannes Kgwarapi, to pull out of a nationwide consultative tour by the committee. Kgwarapi is scheduled to address the closure today as chairman of Bible Training Institute, the landlord of Dayspring Primary School. The school is owned by a former American missionary at Bible Training Institute, Dywane Byers. The secretary of the board at Bible Training Institute, Rev John Phillip said they are considering locking the school's gates after their efforts to talk with Byers to pay the arrears failed to bear fruit.