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The GNU a conjoint fiasco

The creation of employment in Zimbabwe has remained the core responsibility of the state since time immemorial through the civil service and establishing investor friendly environment for the private sector. The GNU has successfully failed to create any employment by shutting door of employment in the civil service. Worse, it has stopped even the replacement of those that retire, reign, die or even get fired. Very old employees are being awarded extra time of their period of service at the expense of the youths. To your surprise ghost workers are still in the payroll since the end of the forgotten civil service audit. Yet proclaims, we are broke….broke giving dead and non existent people salaries. It brings a question, what is the GNU doing, buying top of range cars whilst youths wallow in poverty for the satisfaction of their whims and fancies utilizing the constituency development fund. The same unemployment creation spirit also gripped the Minister of Local Government uttering the

Voting: youths in denial of the first step to participation

Poor youth voter turnout has been subscribed a litany of school of thoughts. These schools of thoughts have propelled youth not to consider utilizing the invaluable merits and reason behind voting. They ascribe youths as leaders of tomorrow (not today), the window of hope, which has seen youth adopting such notions and waiting for adults to do the voting until they are adults to. The notion, The election will be stolen…why vote have seen youth distancing themselves from the electoral process and the national discourses…instead of protecting vote by voting they abscond from the process. Ignorance, personal deprivation of national information have succumbed youth not to be aware to issues of the national development discourse   leaving it to adults world to determine a future they won’t be part of it is rather adamant bigwigs in the political domain have taken advantage to enjoy the status quo demarcating the lives of young people. Considering the