ZANU PF policies have reduced Zimbabwe’s youth from a vibrant and potentially productive force to one that is idle, disruptive, and in some instances destructive.  Under the ZANU PF government, our country’s youth is failing to realise their full potential, and they are being compelled to do unimaginable things with their lives.  Young men and women in Zimbabwe are not pursuing their preferred professions or realising their cherished dreams because there is no government policy that enables and compels them to do so.

The only youth oriented government policy in place is the archaic and purposeless Youth Training Service.  This is not the kind of youth training that can potentially turn its graduates into employable personnel.  Instead, it resembles a narrowly thought-out Maoist training programme that only equips the youth with the skills to wreck havoc on the lives of political opponents who dare criticise the ruling party.  The result is not a productive and fruitful form of youth service.  Rather, the ZANU PF government has yielded youth exploitation and abuse for the selfish furtherance of their own political fortunes.