By Margaret Kamba 

ZANU PF Youth League today joined their counterparts from revolutionary sister Parties to share notes ahead of the Liberation Movements Summit scheduled for later this July.

The ANC, MPLA, FRELIMO, CCM and ZANU PF discussed issues affecting them such as unemployment, drugs and substance abuse.

Speaking during the meeting Cde Tendai Chiwetu, Youth League Secretary for Administration said the youths must not fold their hands and wait for things to be done for them.

"Politics is a game of numbers. We must therefore discuss how we can maintain and keep power. Our policies must be people driven and so we must constantly keep going back to the people," Cde Chiwetu said.

"We as youths have problems among unemployment and drugs and substance abuse. We must therefore look constantly at our urban mobilisation strategy and find means of controlling the parameters of the economy.

"We must utilize schools of Ideology we have in our countries and share notes on how we are progressing."

Cde Chiwetu added that with 65 percent of our population being youth and the youth vote expected to play a key role in the next elections, it is imperative for the needs of the youth to be met. 

He shared how His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has put in place programmes to empower them among them Youth Empowerment Scheme working with the philosophy a country is built by its own people.

 He said young people in Zimbabwe are land owners and that over 700 youths had benefitted from the land.

Cde Garikai Zonde, Secretary for Finance in the Youth League also attended the virtual meeting.