Formal sector employment up 9%
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
According to the Formal Sector Employment report for March, parastatals recorded the highest increase at 3.4 percent, followed by Local Government whose figure of 5.8 percent was boosted by the Ipelegeng programme.
"It should be noted that the Ipelegeng programme is seasonal, hence high fluctuations in the number employed from quarter to quarter," the report says.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...