Contents
1.
Introduction and Background ......................................................................................................... 3
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Methodology................................................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Focus Group Discussions ............................................................................................................... 3
2.2 Civil Society Dissemination and Validation Meetings ................................................................... 3
3.
Youth views Report ......................................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Chaotic Governance ...................................................................................................................... 4
3.2 Culture of fear ............................................................................................................................... 5
3.3 Learned helplessness .................................................................................................................... 6
3.4 Questions over Citizen Activists/Movements ............................................................................... 7
3.5 Employment, education and risk aversion.................................................................................... 7
3.6 Blurred lines between ZANU-PF and the Government ................................................................. 8
3.7 ZANU-PF is the risk to citizens ...................................................................................................... 9
3.8 Voting pressures ......................................................................................................................... 10
3.9 The risk takers ............................................................................................................................. 11
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5.
Conclusions on youth FGDs....................................................................................................... 12
Civil Society Dissemination and Validation Meetings ................................................................... 13
5.1 Age and risk aversion .................................................................................................................. 13
5.1.1 Young people........................................................................................................................ 13
5.1.2 The elderly ............................................................................................................................ 13
5.2 Gender and risk aversion ............................................................................................................ 14
5.3 Residence .................................................................................................................................... 15
5.4 Redefine risk, risk conception and risk aversion ......................................................................... 15
5.5 Operation Murambatsvina (OM) and its link to risk taking ........................................................ 16
5.6 Education, employment and risk aversion.................................................................................. 17
5.6.1 Middle class- Urban and Educated ...................................................................................... 18
5.6.2 Civil servants ........................................................................................................................ 18
5.7 Election mode ............................................................................................................................. 19
5.8 Class and organisation ................................................................................................................ 19
5.9 The silence of the church ............................................................................................................ 19
5.10 Xenophobia and the exit route ................................................................................................. 20
5.11 Political cultures and risk aversion............................................................................................ 20
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Recommendations from respondents .......................................................................................... 22
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Conclusions on civil society dissemination ................................................................................... 22
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