Bureaucracy stifling youth enterprise – CEDA CEO

Cutting red tape: Thamane says bureaucracy is overburdening 
youth enterprise PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Cutting red tape: Thamane says bureaucracy is overburdening youth enterprise PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Bureaucracy is impeding young people from fully participating in the economy and stifling their creativity, CEDA CEO Thabo Thamane has said.

Thamane was speaking at the recently ended Botswana-EU policy dialogue hosted by the Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency (CEDA). The event was designed to engage with stakeholders across the economic divide to debate how affirmative action can be used to boost youth’s economic participation.

Much of the debate was on how to improving the participation of young people in the country’s economic activity.


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