BDP Youth Decry Unemployment Loudest

New BDPYL  chairperson, Karabo Gomotsegang
New BDPYL chairperson, Karabo Gomotsegang

RAKOPS: Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) youth who converged at the congress held here last weekend complained of the upsurge of unemployment, that they say continues to plunge them into poverty.

Numerous speakers raised their loud cries over the overwhelming lack of employment for the youth during the motions session at the BDP Youth League congress that was attended by ruling party youth masses from different corners of the country.

Emeldah Mogae of Bobonong, Mmadinare and Sefophe (BOMASE) region, who bemoaned the infamous closure of BCL Mine that slew the economy of her region, decried initiatives brought to drive economic diversification were either defunct or not serving intended purpose.

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