Youth Update 2025 - Magazine - Page 4
MINISTER'S MESSAGE
A LETTER TO FELLOW ZIMBABWEANS
Dear Friend,
A photograph on my desk kept me
I must be honest: the work is not finished. It
accountable: a twenty-two-year-old
has only begun. We have shown the
standing before a shuttered vocational
President’s model of empowering youth
centre, weeds through cracked concrete,
works, but not yet everywhere or for
staring at a promise never delivered. It
everyone. Youth unemployment rose in our
reminded me every day why this work
statistics because the crisis is that large. To
matters.
claim we’ve solved it would be a lie.
When I arrived at the Ministry, nearly 50%
What I can tell you is this: we know the
of our youth were not in education,
problem, the President’s solution works,
employment, or training — a time bomb.
and we are determined to scale it.
Centres were crumbling and youth desks
didn’t exist. The real crisis was not the
Let’s build it together.
infrastructure but that we had stopped
trying.
With gratitude and determination,
This youth achievements update proves we
started again. I’ve stood in a mining village
Hon. Tino Machakaire
where young people increased production
Minister of Youth Empowerment,
from 100 to 800 kilograms of gold per
Development and Vocational Training
month. I saw their faces when they realised
the government believed in them.
November 2025
