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Blessings Chidakwa Mashonaland West Bureau
Students have been called upon to take entrepreneurship courses seriously to help turnaround the economy, especially under the new political dispensation.

The call was made by Professor Gerald Munyoro, a lecturer at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT). He said students were supposed to be empowered with the necessary skills and capabilities that enabled them to keep pace with changes and remain relevant in the economic development of the country.

“Most students have been shunning entrepreneurship courses of late, but as CUT we are encouraging them to take those courses that will equip them with the necessary concepts and ideas that they need to be business people,” he said.

This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa told graduates at Chinhoyi University of Technology that the country should empower the young population with critical skills in innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity to compete in the global village. Prof Munyoro said the entrepreneurship skills were necessary in a global village where unemployment was on the rise.

“We are past that generation when students used to rely on being employed, we need them to be their own bosses, but the only way to achieve that is through equipping them with the necessary entrepreneurship skills,” he said.

“The colonial set-up had been created to make students labourers only, not masters. There is greater need for consented effort to erase that colonial mentality and move with the current trends.” Prof Munyoro said there were various unexplored areas that students with entrepreneurship skills could venture into.