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Bulawayo Agenda
December 04, 2012
Over the weekend
Bulawayo Agenda held an Election Preparedness Multi-Stakeholder
Meeting in Lupane and Register to Vote Christmas Soccer Tournaments
in Matobo and Plumtree.
Election
preparedness Multi-Stakeholder Meeting
Church leaders,
activists, women's groups' representatives, domestic
workers and educationists converged at the Lupane Agenda offices
for the Election Preparedness Multi-Stakeholder meeting organized
by Lupane Agenda on Saturday.
The meeting
was meant to empower communities to mobilise each other to register
to vote in the next elections.Concerns were raised that motivation
for participating in the coming election was low due to violence
and intimidation incidents that characterized the poll leading
to the power-sharing agreement
in 2008. Participants also raised concerns on the bureaucratic nature
of the registration process which they said was frustrating.
Register
to Vote X-mas Soccer Tournament
The Register
to Vote Soccer Tournaments hosted by Bulawayo Agenda in partnership
with Women in Leadership Development were held in Matobo and Plumtree.
Four teams participated in each tournament with United FC and Plumtree
Soccer Academy being crowned the champions in Matobo and Plumtree
respectively.
Youths were
urged to register to vote so as to participate in the coming elections
so as to shape their destiny. They were also urged to be aware of
politicians and influential people who use them to perpetrate violence
during election periods.
Statistics show
that, over the years, out of 75% youth population in the country,
% has voted. Youths exclusion in such process comes at a time when
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is said to be 95%.
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