Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Thaba-Bosiu youth celebrated the awarding of corporate certificates. The event follows the cries of local youth over high demand for jobs. Qiloane Local Government Candidate Mr Mojaki Moqelane explained in the Voice of the People newspaper that the aim of the event was also to educate the youth on business skills.
He said they were guided by business management by the Ministry of Small Business, Co-operatives and Markets. He also explained that the youths in the Thaba-Bosiu district have set up ten co-operatives with the aim of reducing the unemployment rate in the area.
“Young people have set up beekeeping corporations, fruit tree production, cooking, poultry and egg production, housing, sports and tourism among others, and the aim is to create jobs for young people to succeed to meet the daily needs.
In order to make their co-operatives successful, they create song and dance parties, ”said Moqelane. One of the young people, Kopano Matlenya pointed out that young people with an interest in entrepreneurship met with the International Trade Forum.
“It helped us with business start-up tips with the help of the Small Business Department,” he said. Matlenya explains that they visited high schools to gather the views of young people and to identify those who have the same passion for business.
He emphasized that through these cooperatives the economy would grow as Basotho products would be used, adding that this would help the youth to stay unemployed for a long time.
In an interview with the Chief Economist International Trade forum, Mr Sekhonyana Sekhonyana, pointed out that they assisted the youth in the formation of co-operatives, as it came to their notice that due to the Covid-19 epidemic, and a very high demand for work.
Sekhonyana pointed out that they have noticed that food production has declined significantly in South Africa and therefore saw it as an opportunity to form co-operatives to help.
He said they would go around 80 wards where they would help Local Government Councils to set up youth co-operatives, pointing out that it was not them who chose what kind of projects they were doing but the young people who came up with the projects they had.
the attraction to do them. He said young people create business plans and they help them evaluate whether they are right and whether they have what the business plan is supposed to be.
He added that the President of the International Trade Forum, Dr Thato Molungoa, indicated that they had conducted a study on which young people would be interested in joining a co-operative, saying that they had done this so that one could to form a co-operative of interest, and to ensure that troubled co-operatives are assisted to re-operate.
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