{"id":175952,"date":"2024-07-05T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-young-batswana-more-educated-less-employed-less-politically-engaged-than-their-elders\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:53:20","slug":"botswana-young-batswana-more-educated-less-employed-less-politically-engaged-than-their-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-young-batswana-more-educated-less-employed-less-politically-engaged-than-their-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Young Batswana More Educated, Less Employed, Less Politically Engaged Than Their Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Job creation tops list of youth priorities for government action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unemployment tops the list of most important problems that Batswana youth want their government to address, followed by crime and security, corruption, management of the economy, and health.<\/li>\n<li>Botswana&#8217;s youth have more education than their elders. More than nine in 10 young Batswana (92%) have secondary or post-secondary schooling, compared to 67% in the 36-55 age group and 21% in the over-55 age group.<\/li>\n<li>But they are&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job creation tops list of youth priorities for government action. Key findings Unemployment tops the list of most important problems that Batswana youth want their government to address, followed by crime and security, corruption, management of the economy, and health. Botswana&#8217;s youth have more education than their elders. More than nine in 10 young Batswana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7917,4718,2462,41717,9585,28912,16063,257,17810,254,7720],"class_list":["post-175952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batswana","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-educated","tag-elders","tag-employed","tag-engaged","tag-news","tag-politically","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}