The Zimbabwe National Students Union is a representative body of all students in Zimbabwe from all institutions of learning. Zinasu is responsible for articulating the position given and defined by the the students in the country. The issue articulated are around the students' welfare.
Outside Zimbabwe Zinasu is a member union of the Southern African Students Union [SASU] and also a member of the International Union of Students.

The purpose of the Union, which was founded upno the representative organisations of the different institutions, is to defend rights and interests of students to promote improvement in their welfare and standards of living of educatio and to prepare them for their tasks as democratic citizens.ZINASU also needs to again build a better Zimbabwe desirous of liberty, peace and progress and to take that place in the vanguard of the youth of Zimbabwe which students have held so often in the course of history.

ZINASU, is a member of the Civic Allience, Zimbabwe Election Support Network, National Constitutional Assembly, and also enjoys partnerships with ist social partners like the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.