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(HERALD) Work together to achieve national goals: Minister

Work together to achieve national goals: Minister
Herald Reporter

ZIMBABWEANS have been urged to work together to achieve national goals and shame the country’s detractors. Speaking at a youth officers workshop in Harare on Friday, the Minister of Public and Interactive Affairs in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Cde Chen Chimutengwende, said the tasks ahead of the nation require people to work as a team.

"Gone are the days when people of Zimbabwe wasted time working separately to achieve national goals.

The tasks ahead of us require that we work together as a team.

"As people talk to each other they do not only share the problems they face in common, but they also help each other to find solutions to problems," he said.

"Today Zimbabwe is facing many problems. We are aware that these problems are being engineered by those who think it is their God-given right to enslave, colonise and economically exploit us forever for their own benefit," he said.

He said the Government was aware that they were encouraged to continue with this conviction by their local quisling allies whom they planted among Zimbabweans. Cde Chimutengwende said Zimbabwe needed to systematically mobilise its youth for specific programmes that would frustrate the enemy’s intentions.

"The youth need consistent and maximum support from the Government in the form of continuous ideological training programmes and other projects with a relevant orientation.

"Every country which wishes to continue to succeed in implementing its vision and policies, achieving its national objectives and being a nation which is taken seriously in the world, should keep its youth in a state of high and permanent mobilisation," he said.

Speaking at the same occasion, the Minister of Youth Development and Employment Creation, Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri, said youths make up 60 percent of the population, hence they should contribute immensely for the development of the country.

"Youths are an important component in the country as they constitute 60 percent of the population (thus) excluding them in nation building means excluding more than half of the population.

"Youths are not only leaders of tomorrow, but today they should start contributing to the economy. They were also the ones who fought for this country, hence they should be able to defend it,’’ he said.He said the Government would distribute motorcycles to youth officers in all provinces so that they can link with all youths in their provinces. The workshop was meant to orient youth officers and to provide them with skills of interacting with other youths.

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