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Thursday, April 25, 2002 - Web posted at 9:14:40 pm GMT Nujoma urges youth to shun bad habitsCHRISPIN INAMBAOPRESIDENT Sam Nujoma yesterday urged the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) to promote cultural ethics and to encourage the youth to desist from alcohol and drug abuse. The youth must engage in productive activities such as employment creation, said the President. Nujoma was speaking during yesterday's opening ceremony of the third Congress of the SPYL in Windhoek, which is being attended by 600 delegates from all parts of the country. "They are also expected to wage the struggle against the scourge of poverty; unemployment, disease, homelessness and all the existing social injustices in all their manifestations," he said. The SPYL, said Nujoma, should encourage young people to study hard and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge required not only for gainful employment but for self-employment as well. The organisation's members should also engage in voluntary work to combat illiteracy and support the needy and other vulnerable groups in Namibia. "I have noted with concern that most graduates from our institutions of higher learning are simply content with being employed in clerical jobs in the public and private service," he said. The winners of the elections for the SPYL Secretary and the Deputy Secretary posts will be announced before tomorrow's closing ceremony. Several Cabinet Ministers, top ruling party officials and delegates from the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Zanu-PF Youth League were among those who attended yesterday's opening ceremony. |
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