{"id":85975,"date":"2025-04-09T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/budget-fails-to-address-youth-unemployment-lpm"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:24:41","slug":"budget-fails-to-address-youth-unemployment-lpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/budget-fails-to-address-youth-unemployment-lpm","title":{"rendered":"Budget fails to address youth unemployment \u2013 LPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Landless People\u2019s Movement (LPM) spokesperson Lifalaza Simataa yesterday said the national budget announced last week fails to address unemployment among the youth.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re maintaining the status quo and the status quo is one that\u2019s currently failing, where you have an increase in unemployment rates, you have continuous markets that are not growing, such as industries like manufacturing that haven\u2019t grown in the past few years,\u201d Simataa said.<\/p>\n<p>He further highlighted the \u201cfailing\u201d school education system and that youth unemployment is continuously growing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Simataa, there might be an increase in the budget here and there, but not enough to radicalise the situation. He added that they believe this shows there is a lack of ambition to adjust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe budget doesn\u2019t steer from what it has previously done in any shape or form,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As in their manifesto, Simataa highlighted that agriculture needs a huge boost to grow as an industry and to be a backbone that many in the country can rely on.<\/p>\n<p>He said, currently, agriculture is the highest employer in the country but at the same time it suffers from drought and farmers that do not necessarily get the support they require.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see how problematic it is to maintain the already existing budget. We won\u2019t address the issues that we are facing, but you also aren\u2019t allowing innovation to occur within that industry,\u201d Simataa said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, LPM held its fourth national convention in Windhoek, with leader Bernadus Swartbooi firing shots at the national budget and calling for opposition unity ahead of November\u2019s local authority elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Desert FM, Simataa highlighted how important it is to consider how funds are acquired from the strength powers of each government level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people understand that, they can understand for instance, the stagnancy or why things take a bit longer for projects to lift off and why they have to wait to be assisted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is important to educate people on these matters because certain things are consistent problems that have already existing projects.<\/p>\n<p>He added that once that transparency is there, it allows for individuals to understand what is going on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Namibia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Landless People\u2019s Movement (LPM) spokesperson Lifalaza Simataa yesterday said the national budget announced last week fails to address unemployment among the youth. \u201cWe\u2019re maintaining the status quo and the status quo is one that\u2019s currently failing, where you have an increase in unemployment rates, you have continuous markets that are not growing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-85975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Budget fails to address youth unemployment \u2013 LPM - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/budget-fails-to-address-youth-unemployment-lpm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Budget fails to address youth unemployment \u2013 LPM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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