MDC-T youths to stage demonstrations
By Staff Reporter
Harare – Youths from the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai are planning to stage nationwide demonstrations demanding jobs in an economy that has nose-dived since Zanu PF’s controversial election victory last year.
Confirming the development MDC-T National Youth Assembly spokesperson, Clifford Hlatywayo said “People are angry. They are prepared to go to the streets and it’s their right to demonstrate and to also get jobs.
“Zanu PF in its July 2013 manifesto promised 2.2 million jobs to the people but the reverse is true. To date more than 400,000 jobs have been lost. We will not be intimidated or shaken by threats since we have two options i.e. to suffer or to take action now. Enough is enough we want our jobs now,” he said.
“This is gross human rights violation and the failure by the government to provide decent jobs for its citizens as enshrined in the new charter is a severe infringement of the constitution.
“As young people of this beloved nation, we are tired and our patience has warped. Zanu PF has been lying to us since 1980 about heaven on earth. This has to stop. The time has come to demand what rightfully belongs to us.
“It is an open secret that Zanu PF is tired and directionless. What they plan and do daily is to plunder and disgustingly ransack our national God given resources, this has to stop now,” Hlatywayo added.
If successful, the demonstrations would be the first since Mugabe and his Zanu PF party romped to victory last year on the back of allegations of fiddling with the voters roll, duplicate voter registrations slips and the abuse of the state media monopoly.
