adminGeorge Maponga in Masvingo
There was drama at Masvingo Civic Centre on Wednesday evening, after a US embassy staffer was booed and heckled by youths protesting the illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.The youths booed and heckled programme assistant of the Zimbabwe-United States Alumni Association (ZUSAA), Ms Corra-Leigh Magiya Magiya, during a question-and-answer session after her presentation on the Business Entrepreneur Exchange Programme.
The programme is under the Young African Leaders Initiative which every year sends about 50 local youths to the US for training in business and entrepreneurship, public management and civic leadership.
Trouble started after some youths sitting in the public gallery demanded to know why the US government targeted only 50 youths under the African Leaders Initiative when other Zimbabweans were mired in poverty because of illegal sanctions.
The meeting abruptly ended after the youths started singing revolutionary songs denouncing the US government and its regime change policies in Zimbabwe.
Zanu-PF Youth League national deputy political commissar Cde Talent Majoni who attended the meeting accused the US government of covertly pursuing the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe.
Cde Majoni said President Mugabe’s visionary leadership and spirited push to economically empower the oppressed was a far much better lesson to local youths than going to the US to learn about Barack Obama.
Online Reporter