Botswanas unemployment figures are swelling in spite of governments efforts to solve the problem, the Country Statistician-General, Burton Mguni, said. Unemployment rate went up by 1.3 percentage points, from 23.2 per cent in quarter one of 2020, to 24.5 per cent in quarter four 2020, said Mguni. Mguni also noted that the youth unemployment rate went up by 1.9 percentage points over the period, from 30.5 to 32.4 per cent. Botswanas Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Thapelo Matsheka, said in the countrys budget speech delivered Monday that unemployment was…
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