Online Reporter
Judith Phiri [email protected]
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has called on the youth to be the patriots of the nation’s vision 2030 as they are the future leaders of tomorrow who will drive Zimbabwe’s economic transformation.
Speaking at the launch of the Sukumani Foundation’s Beyond The Classroom Leadership Programme, VP Mohadi said it was critical to indoctrinate values and principles of leadership in the youth.
“The vision of this foundation are great and noble. Noble in the sense that the objectives are to make you leaders of tomorrow and to inculcate in you values and virtues of leadership.
“We therefore support this foundation for that thrust it has set itself to achieve. Yes, someone was saying that some leaders are born, some are trained and some have leadership thrust upon them. That does not really matter, it’s all leadership,” he said.
He said as the leadership in both the Government and politics, as they grow old, they would want to bequeath the nation to people with leadership skills.
VP Mohadi said people with patriotism, that have love for each other and love for their country, will be able to drive Zimbabwe’s economic transformation forward.
“To some of you here, one that may need to analyse our set of Government, you will find that the majority of the people in leadership now are young people.
“We are there to guide them on how they should steer the ship of this country. So, it is along those lines that I agreed to attend to this inaugural meeting, just to show my face and maybe share a few ideas that l am sharing with you.
“We believe in the youth, we believe in you as the future leaders of tomorrow. We believe in a future that will do better than us, as your fathers and grandfathers, but the basic thing that we have got to do is to impart knowledge and education to you,” he added.
He said the Government under the leadership of President Mnangagwa introduced Heritage-based Education 5.0, a transformative, five-pillar philosophy to shift higher education from theoretical knowledge to industrialisation, innovation and production based on local knowledge systems.
The Beyond The Classroom Leadership Programme is being run by the Sukumani Foundation which was formed last year in May and is targeted at future leaders aged 16 to 18. A two day training is being rolled out for youth from Bulawayo’s high-density suburbs.
