via Geriatrics worsen jobs crisis, Chamisa 13 July 2014
A CLIQUE of tired geriatrics is refusing to retire, denying thousands of unemployed Zimbabweans access to jobs, an MDC-T MP has said.
Nelson Chamisa, who is the MDC-T national organizing secretary and MP for Kuwadzana constituency, said the country’s youths were unemployed because they were being blocked by the aged who are reluctant to retire.
“We have over-age employment in this country and this has to be addressed if our young people are to get jobs.
He added that pressure of circumstances was forcing an “over-aged” and “exhausted” President Robert Mugabe to cling to power blocking younger people from getting employed.
“The likes of President Mugabe, the likes of Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, you can see that they are tired and exhausted but because of pressure, the pressure of circumstances they remain over aged at state level,” he said.
The firebrand legislator was speaking at a function organised by his party’s youth wing to launch its job creation campaign in Harare last Wednesday.
The MDC-T youth league is currently on a nationwide campaign demanding that Mugabe’s government fulfils its election pledge to create 2.2 million jobs.
Mugabe, in the run-up to last July’s election, promised to create 2.2 million jobs within a period of five years.
According to the country’s biggest labour representative body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, at least 450 workers are losing their jobs every week.
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Hang on. These so called geriatrics are the ones with experience. They need the job cos their pensions have been. Taken away from them.
the article perhaps is referring to these Geriatic bufoons at the top that are reluctant to step down
Ah,yes. Good point!
not only shud the over-aged retire but we shud have those executives in Govt and Parastals allocated govt farms retire themselves from where they are employed and open up space for others than blocking 2 opportunities for others. one shud go into farming full time or be in full time employment and not both. those who want to have both, they shud farms using own resources.
Chamisa is simply saying he is sympathetic to the geriatrics. If given the opportunity he would join them. In fact he has always been working with them. From the time of the money changing he worked with Gono who gave his younger brother bearer cheques to change on the black market. With that money Chamisa bought his house in Borrowdale brooke, many top of the range cars for personal use and set up a multi million dollar car sales business at the corner of Glenara road and Robert Mugabe road. It is also reported that he has trucks that have been given a contract to ferry milk from gusgungo diary by Made. There is nothing wrong with business that employs people by the way. What is in question is the integrity of Chamisa as a leader of the opposition democratic movement. In this case he is not able to even articulate the demands of the movement.
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