19 Sep 2017

Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Advocate Sadique Kebonang has encouraged students to embrace responsibility even after they finished their studies in order to have a brighter future.

Speaking during a Lobatse Senior Secondary School prize giving ceremony, Advocate Kebonang, also MP for Lobatse reminded students to do things with diligence, respect and kindness in order to reach their destination.

Advocate Kebonang advised students they could achieve their dreams if they stayed away from drugs and theft.

He reminded students that Lobatse Secondary School used to emerge in the top five schools with best results on a yearly basis. It also produced responsible leaders who are currently ministers and bankers ,among others.

For his part, Banc ABC chief dealer for global markets and treasury, Mr Rebatho Moilwa said indeed education could not be achieved if parents isolated themselves.

Mr Moilwa said the role played by parents in their children’s education was pivotal, particularly that the process of education begins at home.

He noted that if teachers were to ignore the role played by parents in their children’s education, this would spell a disaster since they would be detaching their responsibility from the foundation.

Mr Moilwa said the tripartite relationship that involves students, teachers and parents should be encouraged as the only way to ensure a brighter future for the children.

He said young people faced numerous challenges with the advent of new innovations, hence the need for them to adapt to new changes.

Mr Moilwa noted that those challenges were taking place both inside and outside, adding that technology was evolving at break neck speed.

Mr Moilwa said people should understand that in future it would not be feasible for government to pay students tuition fees. He noted that technology has brought the positive and negative developments, hence the need to guard against the negative implications.

He encouraged students to take their school work seriously and remember that academic excellence needed good discipline.

He advised them to remain level headed regarding disturbances taking place in some schools, adding that expressing one’s displeasure through violence had never proved to be effective.

“In Botswana, we believe in “Ntwa kgolo ke ya molomo,”he said. Ends