Jobs, sex, money are youth’s top priorities

Mbeya. The Minister of State Minister in the President’s Office (Special Duties), Prof Mark Mwandosya, yesterday announced his presidential bid as he revealed his priority if nominated by the ruling CCM will be to make sure that Tanzania becomes a middle income state by 2025.

Despite politically motivated rhetoric that Tanzania’s economy is growing at a significant pace, the number of youth without jobs is still alarming. By 2011, the unemployment rate was at 10.7 per cent, a slight drop from 11.7 per cent in 2007. A survey by an NGO, Restless Development, also reveals that only 14 per cent of over 1,000 youth in Tanzania have wages to speak of.

>At least 70,000 self-employment chances were created for marginalised youth in the past three years in the country through a programme under the International Labour Organisation (ILO) dubbed ‘kazi nje nje.’

>Constituent Assembly (CA) member Beatrice Shelukindo has suggested that the new Constitution should contain provisions that assure the youth of employment.

The call made at the weekend by the founder of an Arusha-based institute, Mr Francis Brochon, that technical education should be practical rather than theoretical is most appropriate.

 It is fashionable, nowadays, to refer to youth unemployment as a ticking time bomb. The analogy is scaring because a bomb is lethal, for it leaves death and destruction in its wake when it detonates.

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