Mugabe begs youths

President Mugabe has urged youths to follow the revolutionary footsteps of Zanu-PF.

Speaking to a delegation of Zimbabwe Congress of Students Unions (Zicosu) led by their University of Zimbabwe leader Mr Charles Munganasa who paid a courtesy call on him at Zanu-PF headquarters yesterday.

Mugabe said: "We stand for the youths of the country. If the country is not in our hands, we do not own it after liberating it."

"You are the brave lot. You are the courageous lot. You are the front runners and do not fail us. If you fail us, you fail the nation because you are the young people we look forward to.

"I have said our sun is setting, yours is just rising, do not allow it to set at 12.30 in the afternoon.

"Follow the footsteps that we will have left behind. If you divert midzimu inokurovai (amadlozi ayalitshaya)," he said.

Mugabe reiterated that the country's natural resources must be in the hands of indigenous people saying without them the new generation was doomed.

He said the liberation struggle was not fought for political independence alone but also for economic freedom.