PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to the youth to expose businesses “sabotaging the economy” saying the prevailing economic crisis was being engineered to topple him.
Speaking at the Zanu PF youth league conference in Harare,
Mnangagwa said businesspeople were working with foreign powers to fan
instability through unjustified price hikes.
“We are aware that there are people who are working with
detractors to bring about regime change through the manipulation of our
exchange rate and unjustified price hikes,” Mnangagwa said.
“My government is seized with this matter and perpetrators
will soon be brought to book. I exhort the youth of our country to be vigilant
and help expose all the deviant malcontents and counter-revolutionaries.”
Last year, government caused the arrest of several top
company executives on allegations of manipulating the exchange rate.
Zimbabwe is in the grip of a spiralling inflation which has
seen prices of basic foodstuffs, school fees and other social services
skyrocketing, while salaries and disposable incomes remain stagnant.
Civil servants, including teachers and nurses, are planning
a national shutdown next Monday in protest over economic hardships and
transport crisis.
In the face of calls by teachers and nurses to down tools
over poor salaries, Mnangagwa told thousands of youths that they should create
their own jobs instead of aspiring to be teachers or nurses.
“Growing up we aspired to be teachers and nurses, that must
change, The days for you to line up and seek jobs are fading … I thus expect to
see the emergence of a crop of young versatile entrepreneurs who will help
leapfrog our economic growth and emerge as the country’s millionaires,”
Mnangagwa said.
The Mnangagwa regime has been accused of taking the lustre
out of the teaching profession through underpaying teachers and nurses to a
point they have become a laughing stock in communities.
Mnangagwa said the youths had a key role to play in
rebuilding the economy.
“I further challenge you to learn from our liberation
struggle and be rest assured that under the second republic no one will be left
behind. We should build our own country,” he said.
Some of the regional former liberation parties attending
the conference include the ruling parties of South Africa, Mozambique and
Namibia.
Yesterday’s event was attended by Vice-President
Constantino Chiwenga, Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, Zanu PF
vice-president Kembo Mohadi, and Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri, who is
presiding over the conference. Newsday
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