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Masisi ignores elephant in the room

President Masisi delivering SONA PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
President Masisi delivering SONA PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

As the country faces one of the highest jobless rates globally, President Mokgweetsi Masisi shocked the nation this week when he failed to address the issue of unemployment in his State of the Nation Address (SONA).

It was his fifth SONA since he ascended to the presidency in 2018 but Masisi did not even dedicate one paragraph to address the country’s high unemployment rate in his long speech.

The wide-ranging speech that lasted nearly two hours, examined many pressing issues confronting the nation from Gender-Based Violence (GBV) to corruption.

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