CALL FOR YOUNG BLOOD IN COOPS

Participants at a regional cooperative Pitso in Lobatse said the youth should become members of cooperatives because they are more educated and empowered. They said cooperatives collapse because most members are elderly, illiterate and cannot deal with fraud perpetrated by managers charged with running the societies. They said that in most cases, shareholders cannot take action against errant managers because they do not know the policies which govern cooperatives.