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BDP promotes dependency- BCP (Daily News)

14 September, 2006

PALAPYE - A Botswana Congress Party (BCP) activist says negligence of the agricultural sector has turned Botswana into a consumer nation, which relies on produce from neighbouring states.

George Makhura told a political rally in Palapye at the weekend that Botswana depended on imported food to feed its citizens despite abundant land the country has to grow grow food crops.

Agricultural production stimulates the creation of manufacturing industries, but the ruling party doesnt see the need to develop this sector and as such Batswana have been turned into a consumerist nation, he said.

Makhura said Botswana continued to export raw materials from the beef industry, thus exporting potential jobs.

We need to create factories here instead of exporting raw materials and this will help create jobs to absorb young graduates roaming the streets and thereby reduce the unemployment rate, he said.

He said given the opportunity BCP would give the creation of employment and poverty reduction a priority.

He said government policies, such as drought relief and the destitute programmes, had relegated Batswana to the status of permanent abject poverty, thus killing the spirit of self-reliance.

The Botswana Democratic Party uses these programess as tools to buy votes and this is a trap that Batswana have failed to avoid thus relegating themselves to absolute poverty, as they now have to look up to these short term programmes as providers, Makhura said.

In his address, Morupule ward cllr Maine Kgopo regretted that BDP programmes intended to uplift the lives of Batswana were difficult to access by ordinary people.

Kgopo said the high rate of unemployment, poverty and destitution cast doubts on Botswanas status as a middle income country, for which it was internationally renowned.

He encouraged Batswana to acquaint themselves with political parties manifestos to be able to hold their representatives accountable when they failed to deliver on promises.

Kgopo charged that the ruling party would shamelessly come up with new promises, because its leaders are not worried about being held accountable on their empty pledges since they know that Botswana is not a reading society. BOPA

Source: Daily News

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