By Staff Writer/Agencies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday presented a cocktail of promises to the country’s desperate ypuths whose majority are struggling to wean off themselves from parental support due to ppressing economic econditions.
In his keynote address to mark the National Youth Day celebrations in Masvingo whose theme was: Positioning youth empowerment and development towards achieving vision 2030, Mnangagwa said: “We will create undermy government opportunities for empowerment through programmes such as the Presidential Heifers Pass-On Scheme, Integrated Youth Schemes Development and Agriculture Mechanisation Schemes.
“I call upon you young people to develop partnership and viable business synergies which generate income as well as improve your quality of life. You don’t need to leave the country in order to improve your life. You can do jobs that can uplift your life.”
In separate interviews, youths, however, said Mnangagwa’s speech was uninspiring because of his government’s basket of unfulfilled promises since he came into office in 2018.
They said there was nothing to celebrate on the National Youth Day because they were wallowing in poverty and failing to make ends meet.
Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) president, Emmanuel Sitima said they were in mourning and had nothing to celebrate.
“We are mourning the death of democracy and the reversal of the gains of the liberation struggle,” Sitima said.
“At the centre of the liberation struggle there was the land question and the right to vote (universal suffrage), but due to the system Robert Mugabe created, we are witnessing that right being bastardised.”
