Why Are Youths Not Interested in Politics

By Chantel Takudzwa Zambukira

Democracy cannot be democracy if very few people participate in it. Government systems need the participation of all age groups for them to smoothly work. This is what one professor David Maseko told Zim GBC News

He was making these remarks after having noted the ever present apathy of youth participating in politics. Some of the youths Zim GBC spoke to claim that there is nothing interesting about politics adding that all there is to politics is the violence and abuse of the nation’s resources by politicians.

“I’m not involved in politics chiefly because voting seems not to work at all because at the end of the day nothing changes,” said one young lady that we found in a city bar drowning her sorrows. “It is good to register to vote but tell that to somebody else not me, said one Dumisani Moyo. “Since birth I’ve lived under one political party, that is ZANU-PF. Their record on economy is appalling but they keep winning elections. Does that make sense?”

Zim GBC News tried to get comments from political parties on the subject but all of them had not responded by the time of going to press. The questions we sent them include: why they use youths in campaigns yet not reserve positions for them in the parties, why parties buy alcohol and food only instead of providing real opportunities for the youngsters.

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