A day in the life of a job-seeker

Yeudzirai's rotund face sparkles with anxiety as her hesitant thumb scrolls down a variety of jobs posted on CVpeople Africa website.  Her beaming face briskly flashed into gloom upon realising that the vacancies were beyond her take as only those with 5 years of traceable working experience were welcome. With a first class degree in Accounting from the Midlands State University, her dreams of becoming a renowned auditor are fast fading away as the economic crisis continued unabated.

The advent of internet has liberated how business documents and CVs are sent in this information age. Despite all these merits life is no bed of rosy for job-seekers in Zimbabwe as the country faces a bleak future due to a multiplicity of voodoo policies by ZANU-PF which are creating uncertainty in the once vibrant jewel of Africa.

With the latest report on Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)    predicting a total collapse of the economy triggered by a grinding recession, mounting company closures and a biting cash crisis, chances for Yeudzirai and hordes of other unemployed graduate to get jobs remain slim if not non-existent.

Yeudzirai is not the only job seeker in Zimbabwe who uses internet sites to try her luck, but ten thousands of fresh graduates and other recently retrenched workers are routinely glued to job vacancies websites such as Human Capital and CV people Africa hoping that one day good omen would be on their side. As time ticks on, the truth dawns on them that it is not these sites that create jobs but the Zanu-PF that was given a mandate after the July 2013 elections which it controversially won with a huge margin.

Instantaneously after winning the election that his main contender described as grand theft, President Mugabe authored a voluminous blueprint dubbed "ZIMASSET". This much- hyped economic plan promised 2.2 million jobs through indigenisation of natural resources and product beneficiation. Despite given much publicity as a noble plan on state-owned media platforms, the plan is no stock in the courts of public opinion.

"It is a monumental failure, in fact it is the great grandmother of all this suffering we are going through", said Yeudzirai with a contagious smile but yet grieving the state of the economy.

She is not the only job-seeker to express revulsion of  ZIMASSET as the panacea to this awful situation. Budding independent media and political analyst Tariro Moyo describes it as a rubble-rousing blue-print devoid of anything practical.

"It's a high sounding nothing. If the situation goes unchecked l foresee a scenario where Zimbabwe will be reduced to a common market place where vending is the mainstay of the economy," he added pessimistically.

Another job-seeker who is an airtime vendor at Copacabana only identified as John for fear of reprisal echoed the sentiments by Moyo adding that youths must snub the so called "one million man's match" being currently organized by ZANU-PF as a way of registering their displeasure on the current economic stagnation being perpetuated by opaque economic policies such as indigenisation policy that gave birth to ZIMASSET.

"As ZANU-PF gears towards it's so called one million man's match, its opportune time the youths show their disdain of the current crisis by snubbing the event," said  John as he firmly hold his airtime recharge cards as if to show-off that he has something to do in this dying economy.

As the country continues to sink into political and economic oblivion, Yeudzirai and other job-seekers turn to divine intervention as their once warm-hearted liberators are now into self-agrandisement crusades.

"Like Acacia tress that withstand the scorching desert sun our resolve for a better will remain evergreen. The audacity of hope that inspired all revered great men such as Obama and Mandela to challenge unjust system shall also inspire this generation to fight for justice. God willing this suffering will surely come to a halt," she said with chuckle that hides her resentment of her present situation.