The problmatique called youth unemployment
Sunday, May 17, 2015
In the consequent, some social commentators, yours truly to be specific, have been guillotined, vilified etc on social media such as Facebook.
The guillotining, lynching and vilification has been taken beyond the social media as amply instanced by an opinion piece by Kago Mokotedi on Mmegi and The Botswana Gazette newspapers [Graduate Volunteer Scheme – mediocrity at its best] on 14 April, 2015. This piece is actuated by Mokotedi’s opinion letter and past Facebook posts and, primarily, seeks to address the principles of the debate on youth unemployment.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...