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.