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Wimbainashe Zhakata Mutare Correspondent
GRADUATES from tertiary institutions should use their education to create jobs that are not currently on the market, an official has said.
Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira said graduates must aspire to create jobs that are “not even known today”.
Prof Murwira made the remarks recently while addressing Mutare Teachers’ College graduates who were graduating with teaching diplomas.
He said: “If you create jobs whose names do not exist today, that is growth.”
Prof Murwira gave the example of the invention of the mobile phone, which brought with it new employment opportunities extending even to recharge card vendors.
He also pledged his support for the graduates and highlighted that they should “banish the poverty mentality”.
“Whatever we do, we must banish the poverty mentality. We cannot package poverty and sell it, nobody buys poverty hence we must package and sell opportunities,” he said.
He described his ministry as a responsible one capable of delivering a modern and industrialised Zimbabwe.
Said Prof Murwira: “My ministry’s policy priorities are to develop an inclusive higher and tertiary education that is rooted in heritage and culture in its delivery of goods and services. It facilitates learning environments through provision of adequate infrastructure and student access to financial resources.”
He also appealed to the graduates to see themselves as the giants in the room wherever they go because of the quality education they possess.
“Teachers should be the giants in the room and should be the last to cry when a problem comes around,” he said.
Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Cde Monica Mutsvangwa described the graduates as the solution to the lack of employment in the country saying:
“In Manicaland we embrace this economic turnaround for it is the panacea to the employment headache that we are facing at the moment.”
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