With continuous enrolment in higher education annually, Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Anna Mokgethi has disclosed that 40,036 graduates are currently unemployed.
Two separate meetings that Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) President Duma Boko held with Alliance for Progressives (AP) leader Ndaba Gaolathe and Botswana Patriotic Party (BPF) Patron, Ian Khama, in an attempt to lure them to join the umbrella, are the reason behind the deadlock in the negotiations between the three parties, according to UDC members.
“Can an MP, speaking in parliament, really compare judges to goats?” posed Morwaeng who then quoted the proverbs that Ramogapi had used the previous day.
Once heralded as a driving force behind the education of domestic students numbers at local and international universities, with its ‘study-now, pay-later’ ethos, or grant approach the government-backed student grant/loan system has become “unsustainable” and government is quietly scaling down sponsorships. The bursary scheme was the reason why several private university businesses set up in Botswana.