PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson Alfredo Hengari has been challenged to promote two posts at State Home so he can see for himself what number of graduates in Namibia are unemployed and “roaming the streets”.
Political analyst Rui Tyitende throughout a Desert Radio panel dialogue on Friday posed Hengari this problem in response to him saying graduates stand a greater probability of securing employment than those that haven’t accomplished Grade 12.
“I need to problem the physician (Hengari) right here to promote two posts at State Home tomorrow, so he can see the variety of graduates that can flip up.
“He’ll then make an evaluation himself of what number of graduates are roaming the streets,” Tyitende stated.
Hengari earlier stated: “If you have a look at the unemployment disaster within the nation, particularly youth unemployment, as a result of it’s a lot increased than the overall unemployment, which is about 33%, and also you zoom into that demographic of the youth which can be unemployed, most of them who’re unemployed did not full Grade 12.”
He stated “graduates do much better than those that did not full Grade 12”.
“Simply zoom into that image and you’ll perceive significantly better. Even once you discuss to graduates, it is possible for you to to encourage them that you’ve got a greater probability of succeeding in life versus those that dropped out earlier than finishing Grade 12. That is the truth,” Hengari advised Desert Radio.
Tyitende, nevertheless, stated youth unemployment consists of graduates.
Impartial Patriots for Change (IPC) spokesperson Imms Nashinge, who was additionally on the panel, stated: “The great physician is a kind of individuals who criticises the bloated civil service he’s benefitting from.
“Proper now he’s a member of the Cupboard exterior the precise Cupboard. I do know he has a superb wage and a superb job, so he is not going to know the impression of unemployment. Just a few years in the past, when he was vital of the state of affairs, he spoke lots about it.
“At this time I’m in the identical area he was, and I can argue that unemployment stays a problem on this nation.”
Following the radio interview, Hengari took challenge with The Namibian for initially reporting that his feedback might be interpreted as him saying those that don’t end faculty are “unemployable”.
Hengari stated he really stated graduates stand a significantly better probability of being employed.
Nashinge on Saturday stated he additionally understood that Hengari stated faculty dropouts weren’t employable.
“That is what I heard, I used to be even shocked.
“Any individual wants to inform me that one thing was unsuitable with my ears. This man was making a comparability between graduates from college and vocational coaching, and people who are dropouts.
“Until he did not know what he was saying, perhaps he was not ready,” Nashinge stated.
Supply: namibian
