Job Summit amidst unemployment tensions
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Disgruntled job seekers were early this month sjamboked by riot police for assembling in front of Parliament to submit a petition on lack of employment opportunities in the country.
Spokesperson of the #UnemployedMovement – the group that held a peaceful demonstration intended to hand over a written petition citing all of their concerns to the relevant Ministers – Kesaobaka Maruping, said the summit was a “personal event used to advance the interest of founders”.
It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...