Speaking during LEA's 2013 Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) Pitso held at Fairgrounds on the theme " Building a sustainable and competitive SMME sector as a key to economic diversification; challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt", Rakhudu said through the same collaboration, the two ministries will further provide for the entrepreneurship awareness workshops for senior secondary school leaving students across the country for them to, among other things, view entrepreneurship as an alternative to formal employment. The workshops, which, he said, started last February, have already benefited 13,651 tertiary level students and Form Five students across the country.
"This is a milestone which will instill entrepreneurship interest in tomorrow's generation who ought to further contribute towards our economic diversification agenda," he said. Last week in Parliament, Francistown MP Tshelang Masisi, raised a concern that the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) government is failing to educate Batswana by imparting skills. Masisi further questioned what the ministries of Trade and Industry and that of Education, were doing to impart skills especially to the youth. He argued that the two should work together to ensure Batswana are empowered to sustain a living.
