New BDPYL Broom Ready To Sweep
Koketso Kgoboge | Monday March 9, 2020 15:14
He was speaking in an interview after he triumphed at the BDPYL elective congress that was attended by hundreds of young turks and some party leaders over the weekend.
Gomotsegang reckoned his party carried fundamental policies ahead of the national elections that must be implemented swiftly to douse rampant youth unemployment and national poverty. Creation of employment opportunities for the youth, he said, was chief amongst his strategies. He believed it could be achieved by transforming policies into laws to bind government into implementing on pronouncements.
He viewed tourism as a sector that could be exploited to benefit the local youth. He said the sector has mammoth opportunities and policies for Batswana that are not reflected on the ground due to lack of implementation.“We made exceptional pronouncements that promised the locals decent stakes on profitable sectors like tourism and we need to implement laws that would bind us into delivering those to Batswana and that is where my team would start,” the new BDPYL chairperson said. Gomotsegang said it appeared the language spoken at higher quarters of the government on the development of the country and the citizenry was not comprehensible for the youth and needed to be broken down for inclusiveness.
He said the interest of the ruling government was to transform the lives of the youth therefore they must be in sync with what concerns them most importantly in issues such as the budget speech as was delivered recently.
“Youth need to understand where and how they could benefit from the government plans, but it is clear they don’t understand such things as the Budget Speech because the language used is not fathomable for them. We must break it down to their understanding,” he said.
Gomotsegang added that the BDPYL he leads would drive the government into fast-tracking issues of land allocation for both residential and business plots, which he found contributed immensely to the surging unemployment of youth.
Amongst others he said his team would advocate for a clear quota for women within the party.
“We need to be very clear about the quota for women in our party as it is with other parties in our country and abroad. It is time we promote advancement of women into higher positions.”
Furthermore, he reckoned building up to the past general elections dented his political abode and one of his missions was to reunite party youth structures ahead of the 2024 general elections.
“The party would struggle at the next general elections if we are divided.”
Gomotsegang beat Collen Mochothi in a two-man chairmanship race with 10 votes. He garnered 237 votes to Mochothi’s 227. A total of 464 delegates participated in the election process over the expected 1,000 people.
Otsile Machola beat four others for a general secretary position. He received 210 votes to Phillip Mfolo’s 129, Maemo Botlhale 78, Botsalo Morotsi 30 and Bokang Mosiane’s eight votes. Letsile Sento was nominated treasurer and Tony Sebabi was made vice chairperson.