{{The government of Malawi has defended a controversial deal it struck with South Korea to export up to 100,000 of its young people as migrant workers.}}<\/p>\n
Opposition MPs in Malawi have called the deal “slave labour”.<\/p>\n
But the labour minister, struggling to create new job employment opportunities in her own country, has denied that.<\/p>\n
Eunice Makangala said she “just” wanted “to help the young people in Malawi” who are due to leave for Seoul to work.<\/p>\n
Malawian President Joyce Banda reportedly made an agreement with the government of South Korea on a visit there in February this year.<\/p>\n
It involves sending young Malawian men and women aged between 18 and 25 to jobs in factories and on farms on the Korean peninsula, he says.<\/p>\n
Accurate unemployment figures in Malawi are hard to compute because of the lack of a national identification system to track those out of a job.<\/p>\n
But recent research suggests that 80% of secondary school graduates in Malawi return to their villages every year because they can neither find jobs nor employ themselves.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, opposition MPs in the capital, Lilongwe, are furious about the plan to export labour.<\/p>\n
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