via Zanu PF youths demand to sit on boards – NewsDay Zimbabwe June 16, 2015
THE Zanu PF Youth League is demanding at least 30% board representation in all parastatals, claiming the arrangement is in line with the party’s economic empowerment programme.
BY OBEY MANAYITI
The party’s secretary for youth affairs Pupurai Togarepi confirmed the demands yesterday.
“Every ministry has activities and they should consider youths as well. We are looking at all the ministries and we are demanding 30% of the board’s representatives,” Togarepi said.
“If we have that 30%, then we will use it as an opportunity to transfer skills into the youths so that we will become leaders and not newcomers always.
“We are not saying the Ministry of Youths should do wonders, but it should be on the forefront of empowering youths and this is one of the initiatives.”
His deputy, Kudzai Chipanga, justified the move saying youths constituted the bulk of the country’s population.
“It’s high time we are recognised by injecting us into positions of authority,” Chipanga said.
“In the party, we have central committee members who are youths, councillors who are youths as well as legislators.
“We have a challenge on government parastatals.
“The ministers are taking too long to realise that youths have a role to play in the governance of their boards. If you look at the boards now, there is no such representation.
“If ministers fail to take heed and recognise us, then they leave us with more questions than answers.”
The ruling party has always been accused of bulldozing itself on different business entities where its members are also accused of running down several public institutions.
COMMENTS
Next thing, they request to be in their parents bedrooms when they making their siblings!
madness from these kids.
They soon will want to b ministers n 3rd VPs
A very good idea!
Implosion not far off
30% board representation !!
these boards run multi-million dollar parastatals and board members should be seasoned and knowledgeable business people.
sadly boards have become a means of fleecing the zimbabwean public.
cuthbert dube chairman of the PSMAS board received a monthly salary of $230,000.
now suddenly we will have 30% zanu pf youth running these boards.
will this help our parastatals get back on their feet?
or is it another bizarre scheme by zanu pf master economist, robert mugabe?
start with a tuckshop mukomana.
This is what we have created, as society where people think they are entitled to be anything and to anything regardless of reason, logic and capability> Hogwash!