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Botswana sings the blues in Malawi

The perennial saviours: Athletics 4x400m relay team won a gold medal yesterday
The perennial saviours: Athletics 4x400m relay team won a gold medal yesterday

The absence of school sport has been cited as the reason for Botswana's abysmal performance at the ongoing AUSC Region 5 Games in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The Under-20 athletes from various sporting codes have found the going tough and were anchoring the medals table at press time.

However, athletics provided the bright spark yesterday afternoon when the boys' 4x400m relay scooped the country's first gold medal. Botswana is represented in football, netball, tennis, volleyball, PASSOBO, athletics, boxing and swimming.

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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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