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1,4 million youths jobless in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is grappling with a staggering 1,4 million unemployed youths, a figure United Nations resident and humanitarian co-ordinator Edward Kallon described as "disturbing" during the launch of the United for Youth Inclusion programme in …

Published: 29 Aug 2025 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Youths defends Tagwirei

The Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) has come out strongly in defence of prominent businessman Reginald Kuda Tagwirei, denouncing what it describes as a "desperate smear campaign" launched by former cabinet ministers Saviour Kasukuwer…

Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 18:32hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe youths push for quota system in local authorities

Young people across Zimbabwe are calling for the establishment of a youth quota system in local authorities, a move they say would significantly enhance youth representation and participation in governance structures.The push gained moment…

Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 10:15hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter

Rogue youths target, rape elderly women

A disturbing wave of sexual violence has rocked the normally quiet Chirau area in Zvimba, where a network of rogue youths has been sneaking into the homes of elderly women and committing rapes, leaving the community in shock.The grim revel…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:34hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter

Shona-speaking youths invade Insiza, abuse locals

VIOLENCE has erupted in Theleka area in Insiza, Matebeleland South province, after a machete-wielding gangs reportedly from Mashonaland and Midlands provinces, notoriously known as Mashurugwi or Mabhambadzi, raided villagers in what is bel…

Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 18:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

ZANU PF makes way for the young blood in politics

When young people are marginalized or disengaged from political processes, it means a significant portion of the population has little to no voice or influence in the decision making processes that affect them.For political systems to be r…

Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by Grace Zvavamwe

Youth blend in Zanu-PF candidates excites observers

The election season is upon us.It is an exciting time for the electorate and aspiring candidates for both parliamentary and local authority elections.While other political parties are yet to hold internal elections to select representative…

Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Ranga Mataire

'Zimbabwe youths denied right to speak'

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) national deputy spokesperson Gift Siziba has been chosen to attend Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum in the United States.The Obama Leaders programme was launched in 2018 to support and connect emerging…

Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter

Youths disrupt National Youth Service hearings

THE public hearing meeting on National Youth Service that was held in Bulawayo yesterday ended prematurely after violence broke out.Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture is going around the country gathering public …

Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's young generation robbed of its future

IT is with a heavy heart that I pen about an educated generation whose future is uncertain, their tomorrow has nothing to offer more than stress and confusion.More than 30 000 students graduate from tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe each y…

Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Disgusted graduate

Youths advised to promote unity

Zimbabwe celebrates its 42nd Independence Day anniversary today and President Mnangagwa has called on youths to promote unity as it forms the basis of the country's development.The President said this in his weekly column in The Sunday Mai…

Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga calls on youths to lead clean-ups

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on all citizens, particularly youths, to participate in the National Environment Clean-Up campaign to help transform environs in urban areas in line with Vision 2030.Leading this month's…

Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Stop abusing youth, political bigwigs told

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been urged to put in place measures to stop political parties from using young people as conduits of political violence.The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) made the call yest…

Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Govt must take care of youths

ECONOMIC Justice for Women Project (EJWP) joins Zimbabwe in commemorating the National Youth Day, a day meant to celebrate the efforts made by young people in building the country.The theme for this year is.The youth in Zimbabwe constitute…

Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:53hrs | 10 | by EJWP

Reckless drinking is destroying the youths

Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty glass of beer, so the seasoned drinker or connoisseur is always topping up the glass with more beer after every swig. Not so with 'Musombo' or 'Kambwa', one just raises the 200mls plastic co…

Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:43hrs | 8 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

Lack of IDs haunts Matebeleland youths

After dropping out of school because of financial constraints, 20-year-old Cephas Dube from tsukuru village in Bulilima district decided to seek employment in the informal sector.Without money to board buses, he walked for more than 30 kil…

Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF youths grab Gweru markets

Zanu-PF youths in the Midlands capital have forcibly allocated themselves vending stalls at Mtapa market with city fathers failing to take action against them for fear of reprisals, The NewsHawks can report.Gweru City Council created the t…

Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Some rural shops have rendered e-wallets redundant

Most rural traders and general dealer shop owners order their goods from N. Richards and Mahomed Mussa Wholesalers where they buy using e-wallets. On reaching the countryside they fleece the masses demanding US$ only sighting 'difficult so…

Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Tondo

May churches play their part in taming the youths

The 'cheap', but very cheap spirits (alcohol) on sale countrywide, do authorities or those tasked to do quality control aware of their production or importation? The beverages are competing well if not very badly with the illicit local bre…

Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Tondo

Let's engage as the youths

ELECTIONS have come and gone and remarkably Zimbabwean youths participated in large numbers to shape their future, something we, as the Zanu-PF Youth League, believe is testimony to the fact that we are up there on governance and national …

Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Pupurai Togarepi

'Youths with disabilities'

Greetings to all, especially to the young compatriots of our beautiful Zimbabwe. Today our focus group will be young people who are blind, deaf, those with mental or physical disabilities. Henceforth in this article, I will refer to them a…

Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:48hrs | 11 | by Mokhumi Valela

Open letter to fellow young Zimbabweans

Dear young women and men of Zimbabwe, I feel the urgency to communicate to you on this day, and through this letter on three things; the state of our country, the prospects for the future, and what each one of us must do today to better ou…

Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:44hrs | | by Clive Chiridza

Young idiots

When our youths in politics parrot the yesteryear dreams of the old as their hope for a better future then you know you are in trouble. Political slogans are dead.When the young cannot find the audacity  to converge amongst themselves…

Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 12:35hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe

Youths must tap into Mugabe's wisdom

ZANU-PF as a people's party and the only political organisation in Zimbabwe which has liberation struggle credentials must make its organs conscious of the fact that they do not exist to compete against each other for recognition with the …

Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Tonderai Nyikadzino

LISTEN: Youths being used by older politicians, says Nkosana Moyo

"It's not my generation that goes around beating up people, it's your age group that does that. But when you look at why you do it, and whose agenda you are fulfilling, it's not your agenda, it's not things that are going to help you as a …

Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 14:55hrs | | by Online

Taxpayers and the youth will get a government they deserve in 2018

Are we truly equal to exercise the democratic right to vote and in determining government policy? The answer to that is clearly that we are not. It is judicious in the Zimbabwean context to opine that the taxpayer and the youth should idea…

Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze

'Bigger force behind misguided youths'

A BIGGER force is behind the baiting of some Zanu-PF youth members to destabilise the party and those being used will be uprooted from the party, says the national secretary for youth affairs, Pupurai Togarepi.Addressing thousands of peopl…

Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by Cletus Mushanawani

Equip the youths and protect the country

Reaction tendencies that have characterised opposition political parties in Africa, simply tells a tale of foreign influenced decisions that are counterproductive and anti people to say the least.Without necessarily prophesying ignorance o…

Published: 11 Mar 2015 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba

Zimbabwean youths want jobs not Border Gezi

President Robert Mugabe recently announced the re-establishment of the youth service.The last memory Zimbabweans have of the initiative is of a militant Zanu-PF aligned gang infamous for terrrorising the defenseless citizens during electio…

Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Musavengana Hove

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 courtes…

Published: 30 Apr 2013 at 03:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

A common vision for the youths critical

Zimbabwe is heading to a do or die election this year. Politicians are running up and down as the term of office for this marriage of inconvenience (inclusive government) has come to an end. It is sad to note that the reforms which were th…

Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 07:42hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo

Youths most affected by Bulawayo's de-industrialisation

The closure of industries in Bulawayo has made youths resort to illicit deals as a way of generating income.Such petty dealings and activities have degraded the values and the moral fibre of the society. As evidenced in cases where the you…

Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 14:17hrs | | by NYDT

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MPs Demand Relief for Elderly on Local Authority Charges Amid Lack of National Policy

Wrong decision to suspend ZETDC boss, a symptom of shallow thinking

MPs Push for Service Charge Relief for Elderly Amid Lack of National Policy

ZETDC MD fired after SONA power outage

Mliswa likens Tagwirei to Chamisa

Harare adopts a 'Pay first, drink later' strategy

Police foil launch of movement against Mnangagwa term extension

Parliament apologises to Mnangagwa

Mnangagwa the merchant of darkness

ZimRights condemns arson attack on SAPES Trust

Mnangagwa praise singers lie for a living

MPs slam peak-hour roadblocks, demand reform on spot fines

Public hospitals under fire for medication gaps

Minister Mhona: No tollgate money? Leave your car at home

MP Kuka raises alarm over unrepaired bridges Swept Away by Rains

Zifa accused of running illegal election process

Trainee nurse disappears over fake O' Level certificate

Local content law set to slash oil, seed imports

Buyanga dealt a court blow

Zimbabwe records historic wheat harvest

ZiG inflation plunges by 5000 basis points to 32,7%

Petra College faces backlash over teacher retrenchments

Title deeds for beneficiaries of Operation Garikai

Some companies tender for road rehabilitation without capacity to deliver: Minister Mhona

Ziyambi accused of shielding Judge Katiyo

Zimbabwean drivers arrested in KZN

Zimbabwe Deserves Freedom From ZANU-PF

South Africa Is a Confirmed Criminal & Mafia State - Only Second to Colombia!

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Mnangagwa delivers SONA in darkness