Authorities here recently asked millions of unemployed citizens with college degrees to register their skills with the government so that officials might secure them jobs elsewhere in the region.
"We are coming up with a policy as a ministry to help our skilled manpower get jobs," said Deputy Higher Education Minister Godfrey Gandawa. "There are countries with vacancies in various fields, but our people do not have access to those vacancies. We have taken the initiative to look for the jobs."
Zimbabwean officials had signed memoranda of understanding to send would-be employees to Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Sudan, Mr. Gandawa said.
It's a desperate bid to occupy citizens who have become increasingly restive as Zimbabwe's economy and political system have atrophied under Mr. Mugabe, who has ruled the country since it secured independence from Britain in 1980.
An 'atrophied' political system. Quite difficult to imagine.