Election 2019: Job-creation

In this series, we look at the manifestos and stances of political parties on certain key issues. ALL PEOPLE'S PARTY (APP)• Urgent job-creation, especially for the youth.• Priority appointments of educated from needy backgrounds in the civil service.• Reactivate old agricultural projects and revitalise existing projects.• Employ local residents in green schemes. CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATS (CoD)• Job-creation for the youth. LANDLESS PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT (LPM)• Invest in business development.• Retrain the youth to be entrepreneurs rather than jobseekers.• State funding for agriculture and forestry businesses to create jobs in rural areas (more than 50 000 extra jobs).• Protect work in the fishing industry: No quotas to individuals, invest profits in a social development welfare fund and/or a basic income allowance (BIG).• The cultivation of grapes can create up to 60 000 permanent and part-time jobs. NAMIBIA ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS (NEFF)• Mandatory retirement to create jobs for the youth. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NDP)• Labour legislation must support job-creation.• Create one-stop opportunity centres for young jobseekers and entrepreneurs.• Industrial development in all regions.• Universal unemployment allowance of N$1 200 per month.• Five years of military service for school-leavers without jobs. NATIONAL UNITY DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION (NUDO)• At least 50% of employees at state institutions must be youth.• A state dairy, poultry farm and horticulture project in each region that will provide products to government.• Mineral exploration and mines in all regions.• Medicine factories.• An oil refinery in the Kunene Region that processes crude oil from Angola. POPULAR DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (PDM)• A smaller and more efficient public service and a more productive business sector will create more jobs.• Job-creation will restore human dignity, reduce poverty and inequality, and empower families and youth.• Focus areas: At least one competitive niche industry in each constituency, dynamic service sector (expand tourism), knowledge economy, agricultural modernisation, value-addition to minerals, vibrant SME development and entrepreneurship training.• Expand the charcoal industry.• Reward businesses that create jobs and take on apprentices.• An unemployment register in each region.• Use apprentices to renovate schools. RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS (RDP)• Emphasis on rural development for job-creation.• Establish rural development centres and fund them properly.• Incentive investors who take young people on temporarily and permanently.• Free business loans for entrepreneurs.• Labour-intensive focus areas: Construction, agriculture, textile industry, tourism, other industries and processing.• Reform tender processes.• Teach young people to work hard, rather than pursue instant wealth. REPUBLICAN PARTY (RP)• Programmes and policies that will create more work.• No Chinese in unskilled labour.• Improve education standards and establish more vocational training schools and colleges. SWANU• Socialism for the means of production, especially in the primary sectors, to create jobs.• Fast-track job-creation and wealth-creation for the youth.• Focus areas: Telecommunications, mining, fisheries and aquaculture.• Youth ownership and control of industries.• Job-creation through new food and water sources in urban and rural areas.• Greater emphasis on vocational training. SWAPO• Promote an inclusive economy, diversification of the blue economy, industrial development and value-addition in particular mining.• Use tenders to promote local businesses to create jobs and empower residents by delivering goods and services.• Strengthen existing policies and write new policies for job-creation.• Remove all business and trade barriers.• Radical reform of SOEs for job-creation, for example through public–private partnerships (PPPs).• Other focus areas for job-creation and the promotion of local ownership: Infrastructure development and tourism.• Reduce experience requirements for young professionals and facilitate their easier registration, taking into account international best practices.• Compulsory listing of vacancies on the state database (NIEIS).• Business incentives, with monitoring and evaluation.• Youth must become entrepreneurs who create jobs, rather than jobseekers.• Strengthen and broaden SME development.• Promote job-creation for people with disabilities and marginalised groups. WORKERS REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (WRP)• Youth unemployment will always increase in a state that acts as an agent for foreign investors and economic and political exploitation.

Election 2019: Job-creation

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