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By Leopold Munhende
ONLY graduates from the recently re-introduced National Youth Service (NYS), also known as Green Bombers or Border Gezis, will be employed in Zimbabwe, a Zanu PF activist has sensationally claimed.
The claim was made by Kudzayi Mutisi during an online discussion Monday on the reintroduction of the controversial para-military youth training programme.
However, the training service has received widespread condemnation from various quarters who accuse the ruling Zanu PF government of intending to force the recruits into its ruthless electioneer agents especially in rural and farming communities in the comic ng 2023 elections.
Mutisi told participants during the discussion that in spite of the NYS being a voluntary exercise for the youths; however, by not joining it would be costly as it would render one unemployable.
FEARED: Green Bombers (Source: Daily News)
In 2002, Zimbabwe introduced a youth training programme which yielded violent and uncouth young men and women.
At its inception, the late former President, Robert Mugabe claimed the programme was meant to empower the youth by training them in various skills while also promoting discipline.
It later turned out that the programme, named after the late Youth Minister, Border Gezi, was in fact a Zanu PF youth militia-training programme.
The youth who graduated from these camps were better known as Green Bombers because of their military green uniforms.
They were also feared as they were known to be violent, brutal and merciless, especially against members of the opposition.
By Matabeleland North Correspondent
ZANU PF’s Chitepo School of Ideology is conducting party orientation workshops targeting traditional chiefs as the ruling party moves to oil up its election machinery ahead of 2023.
The controversial orientation exercise also targets chief executives, heads of government departments and town secretaries of local authorities ostensibly to train them on revolutionary ethos and values.
The school’s lecturers led by principal Munyaradzi Machacha have been camped in Hwange since Monday primarily to induct District Coordinating Committee members that were elected late last year.
However, included in the basic orientation course are all chiefs from Matabeleland North province, local authority leaders, government departments, state agencies and other stakeholders.
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