Celebrities support unemployed youth movement
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Scar PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Botswana Police Service and government were accused of turning violent on ‘peaceful’ demonstrators, who were mostly youth.
The youth movement took to Parliament on Monday to grab the attention of legislators disembarking from their vehicles on the high rate of unemployment graduates. They held placards outside Parliament demonstrating their disappointment with the leadership.
These are not ordinary times. Yet, history reminds us that this nation has navigated difficult waters before and did so by clinging firmly to the principles of prudence and macroeconomic stability. From independence in 1966, Botswana chose a path few resource-rich countries managed to sustain. Diamond revenues were not treated as windfalls for reckless expansion, but as capital to be managed with caution. The establishment of fiscal rules,...