MDC-T Youth Assembly National Jobs Campaign launch

MDC-T leader Dr. Morgan Richard Tsvangirai last week on the 9th of July 2014, officially launched the National Jobs campaign program. The campaign,a brainchild of the MDC Youth Assembly. Its a collective effort by the youth of Zimbabwe to compel the illegitimate Zanu pf government to account to its election promise of creating 2.26million jobs.

To end politics of deception:

For more than three decades Zanu pf and its nonagenarian leader had been allowed to get away with subterfuge. Its encouraging to witness courageous young people of Zimbabwe initiating programs like this one, with the intention of bring to an end the tired trick of deception. A trick that had kept the current inept and outdated regime in power. An inept government which is out of touch with reality, and with no clue on how to administer modern economies as well as to remove millions of jobless Zimbabwean youths from the street by creating employment.

This campaign is also aimed at compelling the regime to resolve the legitimacy issue. In the eyes of the out side world, the current regime lacks legitimacy, as it does not represent the will of the people of Zimbabwe. Its a regime that is in power through subverting the people's vote.

Zimbabwe as a country is broke and financially incapable. Without massive foreign liquidity inflows, the "government " of Zimbabwe will not be able to create a single job. Hence the need to re-brand our tattered image in order to attract the "have" within the International community. Its a challenge for the outside world to trust Zanu pf, a government with no legitimacy, to safeguard their investments. As such, legitimacy is an issue that needs to be resolved as a matter of urgency. Investments means employment.

Instead of witnessing a reduction in the unemployment rate, the opposite had been the norm of the day since that fateful day, the 31st of July 2013. Companies have been shutting down almost every Friday of the week.

The ill advised, populist and an election gimmick, the scrapping off of all municipal debts owed by residents country wide had resulted into unintended consequences. It dried up municipal coffers resulting in massive retrenchments and workers going for months without salaries. Chitungwiza labour crisis in particular, its a Zanu pf making.

Zimbabweans in Diaspora, especially in South Africa, put their full support on the Youth of Zimbabwe as they embark on this noble campaign.

With uncertainty hovering above hundred of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa, who got their work permits through the Zimbabwe Dispensation Project four years ago. Most of these permits will expire at the end of this year, and there is not yet an official position on whether they will be renewed or extended, but just an assurance that there won't be an untoward respond, which is not enough.

There is fear that over 250 000 Zimbabweans living in South Africa may find themselves being illegal immigrants and jobless. It can only be prudent for the Government of Zimbabwe to start creating jobs, so as to absorb millions of Zimbabweans scattered across the globe who are yearning to come back home and work.