MoE ordered to pay UB students P3840

source: Sunday Standard
by Kagiso Selabe
26.07.2009 11:54:02 P

In yet another legal blow, the Ministry of Education was ordered to back pay the students of the University of Botswana their June-July allowance amounting to P3840.

The order was given by Lobatse High Court judge Key Dingake on Wednesday, following a decision by the UB Student Representative Council to take MoE to court after the ministry infringed the sponsorship agreement it had entered with the students’ community.

The facts of the case, according to the UB SRC vice president, Nico Selobilwe, are that the Ministry of Education took a decision to terminate the student living allowance over the winter vacation without consulting either the SRC or the student community even though Article 14 of the sponsorship contract states that [continue reading]

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