Kweneng Rural Development Association KRDA

Kweneng Rural Development Association Trust, known as KRDA, is a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) provider in Molepolole, Kweneng District, Botswana. The Botswana Qualifications Authority's register of registered and accredited TVET providers lists Kweneng Rural Development Association Trust under registration number ETP0272, in the public category, accredited from 5 November 2019 with registration running to 4 November 2029. A Botswana Daily News report of February 2026 on land around Molepolole Prisons refers to a plantation area that the Bakwena Community Development Trust had taken over from "the former Kweneng Rural Development Association". According to the report, the Kweneng Land Board sought to repossess the property, the Land Tribunal ruled in the board's favour, and compensation talks with the trust were continuing. The Botswana Qualifications Authority was set up under the BQA Act of 2013. It registers and accredits education and training providers and quality-assures qualifications on the Botswana National Credit and Qualifications Framework. It keeps separate registers for TVET providers, which offer vocational and technical training, and for higher education institutions. Molepolole is the administrative centre of Kweneng District and the principal village of the Bakwena, about 50 kilometres north-west of Gaborone. It is one of the largest villages in Botswana. Courses, entry requirements, fees and intake dates have not been published online, and phoning ahead before travelling is advisable.

Molepolole, Botswana
Molepolole

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