We don’t produce graduates to look for jobs – Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe says that the country’s institutions of higher education do not produce graduates who will look for jobs after graduation but should be employers.
Mugabe said this at the National Defence College in Harare where he was receiving the national security policy and strategy paper from the defence forces yesterday.
The President said that it will be very sad for government to be producing graduates who will come back to government demanding for jobs instead of creating the jobs themselves.
Mugabe’s sentiments come in the wake of a planned demonstration by unemployed university graduates to demand for jobs. Police have since refused to sanction the demonstration.
A Harare unemployed university graduate this week also made international headlines when he went to his vending site in as university cap and gown to send a message that Zimbabwean graduates are resorting to vending due to lack of employment opportunities.
He was whisked away by the police and it’s still not clear where he was taken to as he has not appeared in any court in the country.
In its election manifesto in the run up to the 2013 elections, the ruling party promised to deliver 2.2 million jobs to young people in the country in the first three years of its five year term of office.
The three years end in two days time and millions of Zimbabweans have instead been retrenched from their jobs as companies scale down or close altogether due to the unfriendly investment and financial policies in the country.
Meanwhile the unemployed graduates in Harare have come up with a new form of protests after being refused to demonstrate – play football in the central business district.
Police said they will interrupt smooth flow of traffic if allowed to demonstrate. The refusal could have inspired street football games.
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give us the numbers of unemployment in other countries u moron..
give us the numbers of unemployment in other countries u moron..
The President is absolutely right, what use is it for people to go as far as University and all they can think of all of them is somebody to give them jobs, interestingly some of the entrepreneurs who can employ them have no degrees at all. So if a person who failed O’level can start a company and later employ a Masters graduate, how much better should these graduates be able to start own companies. I don’t mean all of them but at least some should be able to do that. This idea of spending years at school just thinking of going to look for a job is in itself very sad. I can’t stop laughing when I read that, graduates want to protest for job, that’s very sick of them.
The President is absolutely right, what use is it for people to go as far as University and all they can think of all of them is somebody to give them jobs, interestingly some of the entrepreneurs who can employ them have no degrees at all. So if a person who failed O’level can start a company and later employ a Masters graduate, how much better should these graduates be able to start own companies. I don’t mean all of them but at least some should be able to do that. This idea of spending years at school just thinking of going to look for a job is in itself very sad. I can’t stop laughing when I read that, graduates want to protest for job, that’s very sick of them.
How does one become an employer soon after graduation,with what money?one needs to work first or raise capital,not everyone gets to start a company soon after graduation,this nigger needs to stop thinking he is the smartest in the nation
How does one become an employer soon after graduation,with what money?one needs to work first or raise capital,not everyone gets to start a company soon after graduation,this nigger needs to stop thinking he is the smartest in the nation
Both Gukurahundis
Both Gukurahundis
I was under the impression that Zimbabwe is ruled by blacks and its mostly black zimbabweans asking for jobs. Not everyone can be an employer and in this instance ADF I think this has nothing to do with color. Yes blacks can construct roads , build, make and create innovations but are you expecting them to do this for free because they are black?
I was under the impression that Zimbabwe is ruled by blacks and its mostly black zimbabweans asking for jobs. Not everyone can be an employer and in this instance ADF I think this has nothing to do with color. Yes blacks can construct roads , build, make and create innovations but are you expecting them to do this for free because they are black?
English English… this angry ndebele should enrol at a night school.
keep defending, the end is nigh
keep defending, the end is nigh
attacking everyone left right and centre who disobeys him!
attacking everyone left right and centre who disobeys him!
You mean Tsvangirai?
Yes many university graduates have no jobs in this country. But also in Nigeria,Algeria, US,UK,India and other countries. It may be highest but not the only country .
Yes many university graduates have no jobs in this country. But also in Nigeria,Algeria, US,UK,India and other countries. It may be highest but not the only country .
Typical. Always obsessed with whites. Shona inferiority complexes.
Typical. Always obsessed with whites. Shona inferiority complexes.
my question is, when they promised us 2 million jobs what did they really mean.? did they mean we graduates we are going to craeate that what he promised the nation? or he meant he is going to create for people who are not graduates?
Professionals and so called experts are accomplices in the deception by the former slave and colonial master to continue exploiting black Zimbabweans and their resources through education systems, religious and economic structures that perpetuate and facilitate white supremacist conspiracies. Students are being taught to expect the white man to create jobs for them, at church they worship the white/pale faces, economically they are taught about direct foreign investments which include construction of roads and buildings by foreigners,and importing goods manufactured outside the country. There is need for a paradigm shift by our professionals and so called experts.
Professionals and so called experts are accomplices in the deception by the former slave and colonial master to continue exploiting black Zimbabweans and their resources through education systems, religious and economic structures that perpetuate and facilitate white supremacist conspiracies. Students are being taught to expect the white man to create jobs for them, at church they worship the white/pale faces, economically they are taught about direct foreign investments which include construction of roads and buildings by foreigners,and importing goods manufactured outside the country. There is need for a paradigm shift by our professionals and so called experts.
When will he die?
When will he die?
The Shona Gukurahundi is always talking shit. When will help die?
The Shona Gukurahundi is always talking shit. When will help die?