Responding to the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Shaw Kgathi's budget proposal yesterday, Modubule said the YES bootcamps were exploiting unemployment-related desperation. He condemned the military-style training that young people who have undergone them say they were subjected to. The participants were even not taken through fitness tests to determine whether they could perform the heavy tasks at the camps, he added. The regimen of the so-called training was so intense and severe that some female participants to had had miscarriages, Modubule said.
He asked why participants in the controversial bootcamps were not taken through fitness assessment when soldiers had such tests before undertaking military training.The Lobatse legislator said he supported the principle that young people need to be given adequate skills to enable them to run businesses and manage their finances; what he could not understand was why such training should be done by soldiers."What I am asking myself is why these young people are being trained in military camps and why they are being trained by the military," Modubule said.
