New Ipelegeng programme failling-Autlwetse admits

The move to transform Ipelegeng to ISDC was necessitated by the government’s desire to fully utilise it and equip ordinary Motswana with skills. Responding to a question in Parliament on Wednesday, Autlwetse revealed that since the transformation back in 2022, the programme has fallen short where in most cases some projects from ISDC are left behind. “The concept started in the South East District as part of transforming the Ipelegeng Programme. The concept was then rolled out to other districts in April 2022. The turnaround time for most of the projects exceeds the planned by two to three months,” he said.

Autlwetse added that government thought introducing the transformed programme in batches would lessen the challenges but that has not been the case thus far. “We will all agree that the model is relatively new as we are implementing the first batch of projects and therefore, are experiencing challenges,” Autlwetse said.