Prior to the political independence of Zimbabwe, education for entrepreneurship
was a preserve of the White minority at the expense of the Black majority. An attempt
to introduce entrepreneurship in education for the Black youths was when in the 1960s
the Native Education Department introduced a ‘watered down’ vocational education
curriculum called F2 system, which taught woodwork, metalwork, fashion and fabrics
in urban secondary schools and agriculture, home economics and building in rural
secondary schools. In 1980, Robert Mugabe’s political administration replaced the F2
system with a purely academic curricular. Not all the youths were able to get employment
upon leaving school; the economy did not create enough job opportunities for the school
leavers. The need for entrepreneurial education became a matter of concern in the
country. The study investigates how Midlands State University (MSU) has re-engineered
its curriculum to produce entrepreneurs.