CAESAR TSHUPELO WROTE: Dear Dumelang Saleshando (BCP President). As a friendly advice cde, you should just dismantle your team of advisers or the consultant who drafted your manifesto. Let me give you another clearer picture on your current dinner, #BringBackOurJobs. Couple of months ago, you moved a motion in Parliament for BWgovt to subsidise private schools or English medium as your kids attend them. But Francistown South MP Wynter Mmolotsi had wanted them to be regulated. Bizarre isnt it? Now, these private schools are foreign owned mostly and have hired foreigners as teachers at the expense of Batswana, didnt you not think about getting those #jobs back? You reside in Phakalane (no pun), and every construction site going on there are dominated by foreigners mostly Zimbabweans, what does that tell you? Do we have skilled labour in those sectors? #YES. Are we utilising locals? #NO. Did you not think about getting those #jobs back? Local giant retailer Choppies has Asian Managers, Accountants, Cookers not Chefs all over their outlets across Botswana but we have qualified Batswana in Business Management, Finance & Accounting, Cookers or Chefs etc. Did not think of getting those #jobs back from those Asians? If BCP wanted to have a strategy for our resources to processed locally as you posit, dont ladden that with job creation as an affront. There are so many jobs you could get or acquire from foreigners with same on no skills from locally without shouting from the roof tops. Do you know how many South Africans, Namibians, Zimbabweans, Zambians, Malawins are working for foreign companies doing business with our mines locally including Debswana? These companies decry that there is lack of skilled laboue locally. Mining careers are big money spinners and locals could do better as artisans, engineers, heavy plant operators, boiler operators etc At GPH and Bokamoso, foreigners still dominate but I dont have a problem with that. But is there skills transfer? #Debatable, isnt it? But it could be better said had you wañted the #jobsback and had a human capital developmemt strategy to empower locals the better. Even if you get into power, it will take you the whole of 2015/16 to develop a strategy. It will also take you 2017 - 2019 or beyond to undertake Feasibility, Implementation, Infrastructural, Capacity strategies. And by then we will be campaigning for the general elections 2019. And how many companies would have brought the #JobsBack? But who would really want to invest in a small market like Botswana?. Do you remember that diamond polishing was started in Serowe in the 90s and collapsed. So, for now its the skills that dominate the agenda for bringing them jobs back mate. By the way, everybody I know has a Zimbabwean housekeeper or Maid, ever thought about those #jobs? Akalo
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:24:25 +0000
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