BNYC Launches Political Campaign

The Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) in concert with the Fredrich Ebert Foundation (FEF) is to embark on political empowerment workshops for youths intending to contest the 2009 general elections.

Invited are young people under the age of 30 years who want to contest both primaries and the general elections.

The council is using one of its programmes 'Youth in Politics' that has been identified as a focus area in the 1996 National Youth Policy. In a press release this week, the BNYC says they are mounting two projects, the first being 'Youth Register and Vote (Monana Ikwadise o Tlhophe) aimed at mobilising the youth for the October 2-22 national voter registration.

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