Youths Lament Lack of Local Skills Development Opportunities

Youths in Ntabazinduna have castigated the Government for turning their vocational training centre into a police training depot that has never benefitted them since it came into existence. They argued that there are so many people coming from other areas to train at that depot and no opportunity has been awarded for local youths.

The young people who gathered under the NYDT banner at a District Peace Workshop lambasted the authorities responsible for transforming the Ntabazinduna skills training centre into a police training depot. The centre among other things used to offer skills training on catering, woodwork, carpentry, agriculture, cutting and design training to local youths. However, it was transformed into a police base without consultation with the locals.

Apology Not Enough For Transitional Justice In Zimbabwe: Solusi youths

Retributive justice must be the result of an appropriate national healing process in Zimbabwe, Solusi students said.

During a public lecture organized by the NYDT on the topic: Confronting a culture of violence: challenges opportunities and gaps in the national healing process in Zimbabwe., students at Solusi University argued that any meaningful National healing process must have both retributive and restorative justice as its ultimate goal.

“A simple apology will not bring back the skilled labour that was killed during the Gukurahundi Massacres,” said one of the students.

Young people stated that there is need to full calculate the economic cost of the Gukurahundi genocide and use that as a starting point for national healing in Zimbabwe. They argued further that Gukurahundi marked the beginning of the marginalization of Matabeleland which has lasted since then .