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Youth has Numbers: Speak reason through the ballot

Advocacy is driven by numbers, but numbers with no action wont fuel change. Youths of Zimbabwe are in this predicament policy wise. Superficially peeking at the Zimbabwean political, economical and social fronts youths are just but silent and powerless partners in the whole Zimbabwean discourse. However, 2013 seems to over a better franchisement of the especially political arena.  Demographically youths enjoys 67% of the population, but were never taken seriously upon issues that affect them. The sudden rise of youth organisations, association was a major break through of the voices of youths.   The rise of the Zimbabwe Youth Council is just but a sign of the rising youth generation, in dying need to take charge of the development agenda of Zimbabwe. Dramatic change has found ground in political parties as youths were the most dormant members. Today its different ZANU PF notes that it has registered about a million new voters. The MDC-T running a campaign on gett

The Majority of Zimbabweans are functionally Illiterate.

The zimbabwean civic and political landscape suffers an illiterate electorate that is ignorant to polictical developments making it difficult to cast into the future of the electoral escapede. Yes, most of the Zimbaweans are not educated civically as they are skewed to academic education. The greater populace, which is formed by young people is has limited education on civics. The Zimbabwean government adopted the colonial regime education system that focuses more on academics and never on civics. the dictatorial regime of the British propelled this simply as a way of not allowing access to knowledge, later formulate into demads of equality, accountability, transparency and other principles of good governance. Access to such knowledge instilled reason and forced a revolutionary agenda. However, the revolutionary agenda was motioned and moved by those few blacks that had accessed civic educaion through academic means. It will be unjust not to mention that the majority were not educa