Youth unemployment must be addressed urgently

Niël Terblanché A special meeting of the central committee of the SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) has been requested to address the rampant unemployment of especially the youth in Namibia. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the organization, Efraim Nekongo, a member of the central committee, Willem Amutenya, requested the special meeting. “The issue of youth unemployment, which has been at our core discussion as a youth league has elevated to a different level in the last weeks. We have seen some fellow youth protesting on Independence Day,” Amutenya wrote in his letter. He was of the opinion…