Thread by @citezw

Join us in today’s session of the twitter space where will be giving you updates of the proceedings at the Bulilima by-elections.

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What do you think can be done to encourage young people to participate in the electoral process? Join our space and be part of the conversation. #Asakhe

Participants on the space note that young people in rural areas complain that the elderly do not value their ideas and suggestions they raise at meetings and as such they shy away from such processes.

Another participant says in some rural set-ups, young people are sidelined from community meetings, only those who are considered are the ones who own property.

Another participant notes that young people do not value the voting process, they turn out in large numbers to attend social events but do not put the same energy in issues of national development.

One participant says there has to be ways of having conversations with young people to engage in the electoral process