The voices of the jobseekers

Friday, January 08, 2010

SELEBI-PHIKWE: The beginning of a new year does not bring any hope to the unemployed who spend the whole day seated in front of the Selebi-Phikwe District Labour office hoping that some company will hire them.

Unemployment in this town is also fuelled by the closure of textile firms and retrenchment by the biggest employer in the town, BCL Mine due to the economic meltdown.

Some of the textile firms that have left this town under a dark cloud, leaving hundreds of Batswana unemployed are Sports Line, Tex and Rising Sun.

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The voices of the jobseekers

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