Youth activism
Zimbabwe’s youth getting active … from Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT) latest newsletter:
A group of about 30 young people from Gweru have painted potholes white in protest of council’s slow pace in fixing them.
“We have painted the potholes white as they have become an eyesore and it helps to ensure their visibility so that at least if they are not fixed then drivers can be able to see their presence from a distance so that accidents are minimized,” said Nyaradzo Madzikura, one of the participants in the exercise.
“It gave me a great pleasure when I went into town the following morning and heard a number of rank marshals talking about it and council officials were debating the motive of the exercise as I could feel that people had noticed hence such activities should be carried out regularly,” she added.