Katiba member wants jobs for youth

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.’

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.

>Jobs, sex and money top the list of what African youth, including Tanzanian, want most, according to a report published by the Mail & Guardian Africa.

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600 brick making machines offerred to create jobs for youth
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Valued at almost 300m/-, over 600 brick making machines have being donated as part of ongoing efforts to create employment opportunities for youth countrywide. The donation is from the National Housing Corporation (NHC) which is undertaking major ...

Writing the constitution of the people is not an easy task, it needs time and common understanding among those involved in the process, the Constituent Assembly (CA) was reminded yesterday.

The Constituent Assembly member through the Alliance for Tanzania Farmers Party (AFP), Mr Rashid Yussuf Mchenga, has been stripped of his party membership for allegedly securing representation post fraudulently.

Dar es Salaam. As all eyes and ears are directed towards President Jakaya Kikwete before he appoints the 201 members who will represent various groups in the envisaged Constituent Assembly, it appears that the majority of Tanzanian youth have no idea of the content of the second draft Constitution that was unveiled on December 30 last year.