Thamaga Western Primary School

Thamaga Western Primary School is a public primary school in Thamaga, Kweneng District, Botswana. The Government of Botswana's list of public primary schools includes it in the Kweneng section under the name "Thamaga Western", with the postal address Box 61, Thamaga, and the telephone number 5999041. Primary education in Botswana runs from Standard 1 to Standard 7 and ends with the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), set by the Botswana Examinations Council (BEC). Pupils then move on to a community junior secondary school, which runs from Form 1 to Form 3 and ends with the Junior Certificate Examination (JCE), also set by the BEC. Thamaga is a village in Kweneng District, about 40 km west of Gaborone, with 19,547 residents at the 2011 census; the district's administrative centre is Molepolole. The landscape around the village is dominated by large rock formations, the largest being Thamaga Hill. Thamaga is home to the Bakgatla-ba-ga-Mmanaana, whose totem is the vervet monkey, and radiocarbon dating from archaeological work in the surrounding area has traced settlement there back at least 5,000 years. The village has three government clinics and a primary hospital. The school's number, as given in the Government of Botswana's list of public primary schools, is +267 599 9041; enrolment, school hours and admission arrangements have not been published online.

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Thamaga

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