By Robson Melasi| You have always heard that youths are the future of this nation. But when you look at the current state of our youths, what do you see?
The People’s Rainbow Coalition led by Dr JTR Mujuru notes that young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuosly exposed to lower quality jobs, greater labour market inequalities; and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. Youth represent the majority of the population in the country and they do face a myriad of other challenges, apart from unemployment-ranging from inequality, corruption, poverty, human trafficking, emigration, drug addiction as well as the HIV and AIDS pandemic. They tend to bear the brunt of all these socio-economic ills, and that is not sustainable. This is why it is crucial that youths continue to be engaged into community development programmes that keep them morally grounded. We have a big role to play to safeguard a bright future for our youths by creating adequate empowerment and job creation opportunities for them, and work hard to reverse the adverse effects of youth unemployment that are already manifesting everywhere. But to find the right solutions, we must first understand the problems and barriers to the employability of youth. It is important to capacitate our youths with relevant skills and abilities that can unlock their full potential so that they can optimally contribute to economic growth and development.
If you look into the history of our country, you will realise that every revolution was championed by the youth who were determined to improve their status. The liberation war was fought and won by the youths.
The PRC government will therefore pay particular attention towards concrete policies that support employment and lift aggregate demand, while simultaneously increasing incomes. If you look at the demographics of land ownership in the country, you will see that virtually everyone who owns agricultural land is an elderly person and the youths can only get it through inheritance. There is need for a deliberate programme targetted at allocating land to youths with potential on the sector to empower them.
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