The problmatique called youth unemployment

The recent announcement by the Ministry of Youth Sport and Culture to introduce the Graduate Volunteer Scheme has brought to the fore raw emotions that have been bubbling beneath the skin of many people, particularly, unemployed graduates.

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.

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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