The Youth Inspirator

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 ...

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...

A couple of decades ago young people have suffered the predicament of adult culture. A culture that killed their voice the any discourse to mankind. The previous years have seen the imminent rise of young people with a voice to be part of the Zimbabwean discourse. A marginalised group that suffered adult-colonialism and today it is gaining momentum in the Zimbabwe Agenda. In the fight for the participation freedom we have endured loss to our fellow brethren and sisters, endured abuse and many inhumane acts compromising our human rights. We enlighten the adult world enjoying the status quo that rise we will and never fall again for we have endured the pain of the revolution to emancipation and noted the movement to defend the long struggle. We endeavour to do away with the youth at heart-adults, who proclaim to understand us yet establishing a poise to suffice economic enrichment. Today I unveil my Youth Zimbabwean Dream I have a dream where young people stand up for their rights and ...

 They grew up with a law on their faces They wanted to question the law They kept the question to their hearts They became slaves to the law A law they did not want A law that suppressed them Inadvertently, they endorsed the law as their forefathers When they were aging That law was also on their children’s faces Who also wanted to question the law Questions which died in their hearts Gradually they became slaves to the law That same law their fathers did not want The same law they did not want The law that suppressed them Unwittingly, they upheld the law as their fathers Now they are old Today we are here We have that law on our faces The law our grandfathers wanted to question The law our fathers wanted to question The law they kept in their hearts The law that suppressed them The law that repressed them Amplified now we Question the law We act not to abolish the law We proclaim an amendment Incepting a law of youth participation A law of youth involvement We usher a new dis...

The involvement of youth in the making of the youth year end landmark was coloured by an ersatz of youth involvement.   Youth involvement can only be noted by the presence of the term youth with regard to this juncture. Not only is this a national crisis but stood also as an international crisis. The programming of the celebrations was conducted by mere old cadres in the name of interests in youth development cushioned as youth participation whilst there are a lot of youth activists and youth-led NGOs. We cry foul for the lack of REAL youth involvement at international and National level. July 25 th and 26 th   of 2011 saw the UN General Assembly convening a High-Level Meeting on Youth with the overarching theme “Youth Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”, an International Year of the Youth package. We acknowledge the UN`s initiative to address youth issues in a High-Level fora.   Global Youth Coalition on HIV notes that there were few opportunities for REAL youth parti...