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Poor youth voter turnout has been subscribed a litany of school of thoughts. These schools of thoughts have propelled youth not to consider utilizing the invaluable merits and reason behind voting. They ascribe youths as leaders of tomorrow (not today), the window of hope, which has seen youth adopting such notions and waiting for adults to do the voting until they are adults to.

The notion, The election will be stolen…why vote have seen youth distancing themselves from the electoral process and the national discourses…instead of protecting vote by voting they abscond from the process.

Ignorance, personal deprivation of national information have succumbed youth not to be aware to issues of the national development discourse leaving it to adults world to determine a future they won’t be part of it is rather adamant bigwigs in the political domain have taken advantage to enjoy the status quo demarcating the lives of young people.

Considering the Zimbabwe political sphere which is adverse in acknowledging the voices of youths in a democratic manner, where all platforms have been connoted to crimes especially treason due to inhumane laws like AIPPA and POSA. These have stolen the public podia for civic education.

By virtue of a large youth voter turnout on the Election Day, whatever outcome, the incumbent leadership will acknowledge youth existence as such will condone to voice of the youth. The leadership will be forced to listen to the youths as they need to lure the biggest electoral threshold to vote for them. In turn youth by and large will benefit in every facet of the national development discourse.

Thus voting has remained the footstool way youths can utilize to amplify their voice. It is a voter who can protect ones vote from being stolen. Considering youths in the voting strata, they constitute 60% of the voting populace. However, it’s sad that the minority adults are making a decision for the majority youths. The previous election on 18% of the youths voted. Noting more youths are eligible to vote as the ushering of new voters after 2 years. It makes it ideal for youth to take the opportune by voting in the imminent elections and referendum. It is plausible to have a youth generation that is informed of party ideologies and will vote in anticipation of ideologies they subscribe to.

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The creation of employment in Zimbabwe has remained the core responsibility of the state since time immemorial through the civil service and establishing investor friendly environment for the private sector. The GNU has successfully failed to create any employment by shutting door of employment in the civil service. Worse, it has stopped even the replacement of those that retire, reign, die or even get fired. Very old employees are being awarded extra time of their period of service at the expense of the youths. To your surprise ghost workers are still in the payroll since the end of the forgotten civil service audit. Yet proclaims, we are broke….broke giving dead and non existent people salaries. It brings a question, what is the GNU doing, buying top of range cars whilst youths wallow in poverty for the satisfaction of their whims and fancies utilizing the constituency development fund. The same unemployment creation spirit also gripped the Minister of Local Government uttering the same call of stopping any employment by local authorities, the second biggest employers after the government. Not that it was an end in itself, the Minister of Youth empowerment and indigenization is running amok with an ill indigenization policy, fruitfully killing the last hopes of employment provided by the private sector. It is rather surprising that the GNU has failed to provide any employment so anyone who can provide it is a political threat. Considering the mediocre politics in Zimbabwe it could be a reason why foreign owned firms are in trouble…foolish men thinks they will gunner all the support. They have ramshackled Lobels and Jaggers yet are still chanting indigenization. I doubt the level of intellect among these policy makers and even implementers in the GNU. i don’t think there exist someone with common sense amongst our leaders. How they end up in these offices also makes me doubt the suffering populace’s capabilities of choosing leaders and make them accountable. It’s rather a sorry sight that the oppressed supports the oppressor by simply accepting oppression and fighting between the oppressed as the oppressors enjoy the delicacy of maladministration and highest level of ineptitude.

When you cast your eyes to the Ministry of tertiary education and the tertiary sector, the mind boggles a lot. Tertiary institutions are enrolling like hot cakes, MSU reaching out to 16 000, UZ to 11400 only to mention a few, its big business these institution are doing however, selling useless education. Considering that Universities are run professional intellects/think tanks, in every facet. That’s a fat lie in Zimbabwe. How can a professional intellect enroll students to partake a curricular the nation is not offering employment for at all? How did they reach to be professors and doctors? My questions for these guys can be answered by the low if not zero production of articles, literature and researches the have achieved so far, rather I equate the lesser of a first grad student because they can read but can not analyse or think on their own and write their own literature. These self acclaimed professors have never guessed an input for the way forward for the useless GNU. We should consider transforming these universities to vocational training centre at least skills can be taken home and youths can embark on innovative income initiatives. Alas, not expecting ant help form the GNU, rather they will name it illegal. It reminds me of the Taisek genius, instead of supporting a helicopter initiative our certified engineers never dreamt of, it was grounded ILLEGAL. It’s a shame, the GNU does not like a poor man to fly despite having the proof that he can fly. The best they can do is squander monies reserved for Constituency Development.

The absolute closure of possibilities of employment have intensified the vulnerability of youths, for girls they attach themselves to rich echelons especially from the political arena as alluded by His Excellence R. G. Mugabe as they are spreading HIV and boys have been set amok with the same political echelons as their mindsets have been poisoned to unleash violence to their peers connoted political affiliation as the source of all problems to their predicament of unemployment and poverty
We demand the unveiling of the public service audit. We demand the audit results of the Constituency Development Fund and all fraudsters be brought to book. We demand an investigation of the Implementation and monetary use of the Youth Fund as of the last beneficiaries. Any fraudsters of the Youth Fund should be arrested. We demand the government to create employment and stop the ILL indigenization which is shrinking employment possibilities in the private sector. We demand the stop of the use of youths as engines of violence. We demand His excellence R.G.Mugabe to wear the MDC regalia and Hon M.R.Tsvangirai to wear ZANU PF regalia and their deputies in the public domain to show us they are not part of any political Violence but true to the cause of peace building and national healing of Zimbabwe.

I urge all youths to be resilient, face the GNU as the source of dilemma in their lives in every facet. Its time the youths should unite, stand and demand the GNU to deliver or leave office before our generation wallow and rot in poverty. We should direct all our energies to the GNU to deliver not fight each other.

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If you give the devil place, he will take it. You have to stay alert and keep your shield of faith high because if you don't, he'll turn around and steal back from you the ground you just took.

Decide today to give the devil no place!

READ: John 15:7-12

Most believers don't know anything about true humility. If you tell them they're the righteousness of God, they'll fight to keep from believing it. You can give them scripture references to prove it, and they'll still argue.

"Oh no," they'll say, "I'm not righteous. I'm just an old sinner saved by grace." They're making a sincere attempt to be humble. But they're sincerely wrong. They're so afraid of being exalted by pride that they've let Satan trick them into falling right into it.

Let me show you what I mean. According to 1 Peter 5:5-6, to be truly humble is to submit to God. That means when God says something, you believe it no matter how foreign to your "religious" thinking it may be. When He says you've been made the
righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, you say that too. In fact, you wouldn't dare say anything else because to do so would be to dare to disagree with God. And, when you get right down to it, that's the ultimate form of pride, isn't it?

Don't let Satan keep you groveling in the dust of false humility. Agree with God. Find out what His Word says about you, then be bold enough to say it yourself. Banish pride by submitting to His truth. Cloth yourself in true humility. It's sure to look good on you.

READ: 1 Peter 5:5-11

Most of us heard about our guardian angel when we were just children; and, in those days, it was a comforting thought. With monsters lurking behind the closet door and creepy things crawling beneath the bed, it was good to know that someone was there to protect us when the light was out. But angels are not just kid stuff.
They're powerful spirits sent forth to minister for us who are heirs
of salvation.

READ: Psalm 103:17-22

If you've laid hands on someone who didn't receive his healing, don't cut off the flow of God's power by withdrawing your faith. Stand fast. Keep believing that "healing always comes" and somewhere down the line that poor sick fellow may just decide to stand up and agree with you!

READ: Mark 10:46-52

Some people have the mistaken idea that when the direction of the Holy Spirit comes to them, they can just ignore it for a while if they want to and then obey Him later in their own good time. They think to themselves, "I know what I'm doing is wrong. I know my lifestyle isn't right, but I'm just going to do it a while longer. Then I'll get things straightened out with the Lord."

Let me warn you, that is an extremely dangerous thing to do. Because God says that when you refuse His guidance, your heart grows hard. It's not that God's grace doesn't extend to you any- more. It's not that He wouldn't forgive you if you turned to Him. It's just that sin will callous your heart to the point where you can't hear Him calling.When the Spirit of God comes to correct you, follow His instructionsand follow them quickly. Keep your heart tender.

Obey the Lord!

READ: Nehemiah 9:6-37

You are an ambassador for Christ! If you have made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, you have been sent to act as a representative for Him in this world. Just as nations send ambassadors to represent their interests in other countries, you've been sent here to look after the interests of the kingdom of God.

Think about that. Everywhere you go you are representing the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That's a very high honor. It may also seem like a rather tall bill to fill. But God has equipped you to do it. He's given you His Name and the power of His Word. He's even put His very own Spirit inside you. And He's given you the ability to hear and obey the directions of that Spirit.

You are an ambassador for Christ. Begin to live like it today.

READ: 2 Corinthians 5:10-21

One area of our lives we believers need to particularly guard is the area of our relationships. We simply have to heed the Word of God where they're concerned. Let's not fuss with one another and criticize one another so much that we hinder the forces that God has given us to make us successful in this world.

Strife also causes trouble in the spirit realm. It opens the door to the devil. It keeps our prayers from being answered. It even keeps our angels from moving on our behalf! Let the power of God flow in all of your relationships. Learn to walk in the light!

READ: Romans 15:1-7

Most of us would never dream this verse could apply to us. After all,we're believers! We'd never say that there is no God.But maybe we should think again. It's true that with our mouths we would never say something like that...but what about with our actions? Do we say it by sinning just a little here and there and
thinking it won't matter? Do we go to an immoral movie or have a gossip session about the pastor, ignoring God's command to the contrary?

With our actions are we saying, "There is no God?"
Psalm 14:1 connects that kind of thing to corruption. Whether he realizes it or not, the more a person acts that way, the more corrupt he's going to become.Don't make the foolish mistake of publicly proclaiming Jesus as your Lord, and then privately denying Him with one little action at a time. Use wisdom in everything you do so that both your heart and your life shout loudly, "My God reigns!"

READ: Psalm 14:1-7, 15:1-5

Once you've made the Word of God final authority in your life, your first step to victory over the attacks of the enemy is to go to the Word and lay hold of God's promises concerning your situation. Notice I said, "Go to the Word." It's good to have the Word committed to memory. But don't let that substitute for getting the Word before your eyes on a daily basis.

Think about it this way. It never did a hungry person any good to think about what a potato tastes like. Not even if he can remember it perfectly. The same thing is true with the Word of God. It's important to keep it in memory, but it's also necessary to go directly to it and feed your spirit with it. There is power in keeping the Word in front of your eyes and going into your ears. That's how it gets in your heart, so you can live by it.

So don't just think about the Word today, read it. Go to the promises that cover your situation. Feed on those promises and grow strong!

READ: Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Hebrews 11:3

God uses words to create. He used His Word to "frame" the worlds. Just look in the first chapter of Genesis and count how many times you see the phrase, "God said." "God said, Let there be light: and there was light.... God said, Let there be a firmament.... God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together.... God said, Let the earth bring forth...."

God doesn't do anything without saying it first. That's His mode of operation. And, if you're smart, you'll use that mode of operation too. You'll take His words and speak them out until they take on form and substance and become a reality in your life.

READING: Genesis 1