The government intends to generate foreign currency by exporting unemployed graduates to South Sudan. Being Africa’s newest state, South Sudan is a very poor country, having got independence from Sudan a few years ago.
The government has already registered 16 000 graduates under a scheme to export labour. In an interview with state media on Monday, Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Minister Professor Amon Murwira said Government in 2019 wants to finalise the exportation of labour programme with South Sudan. Said Murwirwa
During innovation Africa, I had the privilege of meeting my counterpart, Minister of Higher Education from South Sudan, in order to learn at which stage we were (in regards to the exportation of labour). But I then learnt that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was not finalised. And we are going to finalise the MoU as we enter 2019.
In Zimbabwe, we pride ourselves for being very literate. We discovered that we have to up our skills but we know that we are better off in this area. It must be seen through foreign currency inflows using education.
… What that means is that we are going to work very hard to make sure agreements with South Sudan for example among others is finalised so that we can begin the exportation of our graduates.