UB’s Professor Siphambe raised concerns over TVET a year before Boko’s BBC remarks

One year and two months before the sixth president of Botswana, Advocate Duma Boko appeared on the BBC Africa Daily podcast saying he intends to grant undocumented Zimbabweans with temporary work and residence permits to promote skills transfer, Professor of Economics at the University of Botswana (UB), Happy Siphambe had issued a subdued warning to Botswana policymakers to re-examine the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

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