Tebogo receives Presidential Order of Meritorious Service award
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 3710 Views |
Letsile Tebogo
At 20 years, Tebogo becomes the youngest person to ever receive the award.
The Presidential Order of Meritorious Service is an honour awarded to any person for actions or services benefiting Botswana or any Community or Organisation therein in any particular field or sphere and for acts of courage or devotion to duty.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...