Unemployed? Go And Sell Airtime – Mugabe tells Zim
12 December 2015
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Staff Reporter | President Robert Mugabe has acknowledged the country’s massive unemployment rate and mourned the future of the thousands of Zimbabwean university graduates who graduate from the state universities every year.
Addressing the five thousand ZANU PF delegates attending the party’s 15th National Conference in Victoria Falls today, the President said he was worried about the unemployment rate in the country and urged people graduating from the state universities in the country not to sit back and expect employment but join the informal sector and start small businesses.
“I have been capping thousands of graduates at the universities around the country and I look at them and say where to from here,” said the president.
He urged the colleges and universities to start teaching courses that will allow the graduates to be immediate business people and not seek employment.
“We must adopt education which will make our graduates ready to be employers not employees,” he said.
“Those who have already graduated must start thinking of engaging in programmes that will give them income instead of going out to search for employment. Yes, we can absorb a few here and there but the rest must engage in other income generating projects in the small business sector.”
The President’s statement comes shortly after his party won an election in which the party manifesto promised the nation 2.2 million jobs if elected to government. Contrary to the election manifesto, the two years since the last election has seen the largest number of company closures, retrenchments and increase in the unemployment level than ever in the country.
Most of Zimbabwe’s university graduates are failing to get employment matching their qualifications and are either employed as teachers or roaming the streets as vendors some as low as airtime vendors. Neighbouring countries are also awash with highly qualified Zimbabweans doing menial jobs such as waiters and security guards for survival.

One Reply to “Unemployed? Go And Sell Airtime – Mugabe tells Zim”

  1. Normal humans know that what makes a business man, an employer is not education. It’s money, capital. The goblin is 99, it claims to have 7 degrees and it struggled to go into business. Even now it is struggling to keep gushungo holdings afloat despite that it runs on freebies and stollen resources

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