But then we have just had the Budget and bang on call, following my observation that the P100-120 million Lobatse milk project had not even got a mention, came articles in Mmegi and the Voice reporting on the dispatch of 15 ‘milk’ trainees to Florida. Ten will, apparently, be given five-year contracts. The other five will return to the Ministry.
There was no mention of the 15 other ‘milk’ trainees who were also sent to Florida in August last year. If they have returned, are they already at the start of their five-year contracts and working on the project in Lobatse? Or are they still in Florida? Seemingly the milk industry is one which is considered unsuited to women because the 25 trainees sent to Florida have all been male, as far as I can make out. This would mean that the only women who have made it to Florida have been those who were members of the benchmarking Town Council group who got there later last year. It is usually sensible not to make too much of a single sentence which may have been penned without great thought.
