Ipelegeng boosts employment figures

The programme, which employs over 50,000, is designed to maximise employment of simple tools and machinery, unskilled and semi-skilled and unskilled labour in the implementation of labour based initiatives and maintenance of government facilities. According to the recent employment figures released by Statistics Botswana (SB), overall formal sector employment increased by 2.5 percent from 389, 665 in September 2012 to 399,530 persons in September 2013, according to recent data from Statistics Botswana (SB).

Local government recorded the highest increase in employment of 9.6 percent, followed by parastatal organisations with 7.7 percent. The statistics body reiterated that the increase in local government employment was due to a high increase in the number of Ipelegeng employees, which was 15.2 percent. Central government recorded a decline of 0.4 percent in employment.