Constance Simelane

"Students make it [out of school] with their 'O' Level certificates, and hope for good jobs. However, those hopes are dashed when they discover that industry requires a practical command of language th…"

"The root cause of the manpower dilemma lies in the education system, not in the students themselves: there are inadequately equipped classrooms, libraries, laboratories and workshops."

"We are not looking at science and technology with the importance that they deserve."

"We have a low budget allocation for science and technology, leaving universities, for example, to work with what they can scrounge, and what they can raise from external sources."

"But without a policy on science and technology, how is Swaziland going to tackle the many challenges it faces?"

"we need to look at how we can bring everyone — legislators, the executive and the people — on board, and help them to understand the importance of science to meeting the country’s social needs."

"You can imagine the feedback that politicians are going to receive if people do not understand the issues; they are going to say: ‘why are you going to spend money on science and technology when we fa…"

"When you ask someone in Swaziland ‘where do condoms come from?’, for example, science and technology do not come into it all; the answer is that you get them at the clinic."