Jobs for Zimbabweans

90% of Zimbabwe’s working population is jobless. Household subsistence and the informal sector do offer this majority limited opportunity. Among young adults, the majority have no opportunity at all.  The 10% formally employed are underpaid in low quality jobs.

Youth unemployment was an issue, even before political independence was gained in 1980.Rapid population growth, since 1980, has never been matched by job creation in Zimbabwe. High unemployment has fuelled emigration and poverty, guaranteeing crime, prostitution plus delinquency all round. Lack of opportunity has led to wasted youth and moral decline.

Facilitating conditions that ensure real productive job growth is the remit of the state. Only inclusive policy will give Zimbabwe increasing formal employment and the needed rising demand for labour.

Without a currency and bruised by double deficits the country needs to recover its monetary-fiscal positions. Thus, a Zimbabwe properly managed from the top will bring about more social stability. To avoid this persistent waste of talent, government has to amicably work with firms providing quality jobs.

Zimbabwe’s government is not powerless. Zimbabwe government can curb in-house corruption, clean up its failed institutions and remove bureaucracy. Zim gov needs to start walking the walk, all talk no action does not deliver results.