A Remarkable Partnership

Last week's steering through the National Assembly of the controversial Media Practitioners Bill by an ex-editor of Patrick van Rensburg's Mmegi, seems an appropriate moment to try and re-assess his contribution to this country, not least because today he is only rarely in the public eye.

In past years, Van Rensburg  has been a prolific contributor to Mmegi and perhaps the only one who has familiarised himself with successive National Development Plans. But with no journalistic qualifications to justify his being registered as a journalist under the new law, it may be that we have seen the last of his contributions.

How very odd it must seem to him that so many wheels seem to have turned full circle since 1962 when, with his wife, Liz, he told the youth of Serowe that if they wanted a secondary school, they had better start building it.

Editor's Comment
Students wellbeing is a priority

The research presented at the recent Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union symposium should serve as a wake-up call to us all.We are so focused on coding, artificial intelligence, and the jobs of tomorrow that we are neglecting the basic safety and emotional well-being of the children sitting in our classrooms today.Statistics are deeply worrying. One study revealed that 34% of secondary school learners in Gaborone meet the criteria for a...

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