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MDC applauds Zinasu petition against Zanu PF propaganda
Nelson Chamisa, MDC National Youth Chairperson
October 26, 2004

The MDC supports the move taken by Zinasu to petition Higher Education Minister Herbert Murerwa against the introduction of a Zanu PF propaganda course named National Strategic Studies to colleges and Universities.

The introduction of the course is further evidence that this regime lacks of national consensus building as no one was consulted in the development of this course, in the same way that the regime consulted no one in coming up with the national youth service. It is quite clear that the National Strategic Studies course is just partisan.

"We believe that what the country needs is a new beginning. Young people need jobs, they need food. Priorities of a responsible government would be a focused on these key people needs, but the regime remains focused on trivial issues while the house burns.

"All the nation’s resources need to be harnessed to promote job creation. This obsession about turning young people into passive pseudo nationalists so that the chefs are undisturbed at the dinner table will not be tolerated.

"As young people on whom the future of Zimbabwe lies, we remain resolute in support of the MDC economic policy Restart, which we believe has its priorities in the right places by putting the issue of employment and food at the centre.

"People do not eat propaganda. We have had three years of propaganda and yet we are getting poorer by the day. No amount of propaganda can be a substitute for the tangible things that concern young people.

We reject the National Strategic Studies course, and indeed if the regime goes on to implement it, we will ensure that a people sensitive government which is coming soon flushes it down into the dust bin where it belongs.

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