Efraim Nekongo

Youth unemployment must be addressed urgently

Youth unemployment must be addressed urgently

Niël Terblanché A special meeting of the central committee of the SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) has been requested to address the rampant unemployment of especially the youth in Namibia. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the organization, Efraim Nekongo, a member of the central committee, Willem Amutenya, requested the special meeting. “The issue of youth unemployment, which has been at our core discussion as a youth league has elevated to a different level in the last weeks. We have seen some fellow youth protesting on Independence Day,” Amutenya wrote in his letter. He was of the opinion…
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Amutenya asked to withdraw<br>…majority SPYL CC members failed vetting

Amutenya asked to withdraw
…majority SPYL CC members failed vetting

Martin Endjala If Swapo Party Youth League has to work strictly by the script on the credentials of the regional delegates and Central Committee members to it 7th Elective Congress, many comrades would be disqualified from attending the congress. The final vetting document in possession of the Windhoek Observer tells a tale of delegates and CC members only paying up their membership dues ahead of the congress with most of them in arrears since 2017, some not meeting critical criteria such as SPYL membership and lack of voter cards, as well as not meeting the minimum five-year membership to be…
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